One person was killed and another injured due to a lightning strike on a paddyfield in Serunuwara last evening (2).
Police said three farmers had been working in a paddyfield when two of them were struck by lightning. A 61-year-old resident of Somapura died at the scene while the other person was admitted to the Serunuwara Hospital for his injuries.
The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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