Sri Lankan Army troops have returned home after completing their peacekeeping mission in Mali.
The deployment involved 1,099 Officers and Other Ranks, along with 14 staff Officers, as part of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission.
The mission generated over 14,524 million rupees in foreign exchange for Sri Lanka.
During the operations, three Sri Lankan soldiers were killed by improvised explosive devices, and 34 others were injured.
The mission concluded with Colonel Pinsara Wickramarachchi handing over the UN flag to Major General Dinesh Nanayakkara at Bandaranaike International Airport.
The Cyclonic Storm “Ditwah” moved further north from Trincomalee today evening leaving a trail of destruction including more than 90 deaths, over 100 missing and tens of thousands displaced, officials said.
A third rescue attempt to save 28 people trapped on the rooftop of a farm building in Vithikuliya, Nikaweratiya, has failed due to the dangerous water surge from the Deduru Oya.
Read this week’s Sunday Times for your interesting articles
All passengers of a bus swept away by rising floodwaters on the Kalawewa Bridge along the Anuradhapura–Puttalam road have been rescued, Navy Commander Vice Admiral Kanchana Banagoda said.
Leave Comments