A 82 year old life sentenced inmate of Mahar prison reportedly died due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) upon admission to the Ragama hospital, Department of Prisons said today.
According to the department, the PCR test conducted during the postmortem examination revealed that the inmate who had other underlying health issues contracted the virus.
The victim was a cancer patient and was receiving treatment at the Welikada prison hospital. Over 400 prison inmates have been tested positive for the coronavirus over the past few weeks and this would be the first death reported from the COVID-19 cluster inside the prisons.
I still remember the day of August 1947 floods, as it was the last school day at Kingswood College Kandy and the height the water soured. Water rose to the height of the Cross of the Chrurch at Getambe and the water was so high that it engulfed the Getambe Rajaponawarma Temple leaving only a few leaves of the Bo-tree visible.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate and submit a report over a complaint about the alleged illegal assets gained by model Piumi Hansamali.
Heritage properties are major tourist attractions world over. Sri Lanka is no exception in this matter. From Colombo, Galle, most of the mountain cities including Nuwara Eliya, Bandarawela, Hatton and Kandy and in the North, hundreds of heritage properties are spread across.
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