At least 17 passengers who returned from overseas were injured when the bus slid off the road and crashed into a pipeline in Palai, Jaffna, police said.
The passengers were on their way to a military run quarantine center in Vidathalpalai after they arrived into the country yesterday. Palai police are conducting investigations over the accident. The injured persons are admitted to Palai base hospital and Jaffna Teaching hospital.
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My memory takes me back to 1979, to a moment etched in time when a strikingly tall and impeccably dressed military officer, a Master in charge of Cadeting at Prince of Wales College commanding a guard of honour presented to President J.R. Jayawardene by the cadets of 3CCC, consisted of Ananda, Nalanda and Prince of Wales Cadet platoons at the Prince of Wales College grounds.
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