The Ceylon Teachers' Union (CTU) secretary General Joseph Stalin who was in the centre of attraction after being forcibly taken to a quarantine centre has been informed to be prepared to leave the centre.
Mr Stalin said a senior officer of the camp had told him that the buses were due to take them back to Colombo.
CTU members said that due to the adverse publicity the government gained by trying to detain the trade union leaders they had been forced to release Mr Stalin and others although the original plan was keep them for two weeks.
Mr Stalin was taken by the Police on July 8 and sent to a quarantine centre in Mullaitivu even after the courts gave them bail.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
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