Students from the Jaffna University are protesting outside the Jaffna District Secretariat. According to reports the protest is causing traffic congestions along the main A9 road.
The students are demonstrating against the deaths of two third year students of the Arts faculty on Friday (October 21). The Criminal Investigation Department has been called in to handle the case. Five policemen attached to the Jaffna Police were arrested and remanded.
The President has ordered an independent and impartial investigation into the deaths of the students.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
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