The people of the Northern province today commemorate their loved ones lost in the three decades of war with special religious observations across the region, provincial sources said.
The University of Jaffna commemorated the day with the lighting lamps and candles inside the campus premises. Students, lecturers and other staff of the university participated in the event.
In view of a school student’s suicide in Jaffna yesterday , the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) announced today as a holiday for the schools in the region. Most of the schools are closed.
Meanwhile NPC councilor M. K.Sivajilingam with some of the relatives of the war dead commemorated the at Nallur Kandaswamy temple in Jaffna with lighting an oil lamp.
Police spokesperson Ruwan Gunasekara told the Times Online that nobody would be allowed to remember the fallen cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) but the people can commemorate their loved ones who died during the war.
According to the provincial sources the security presence is relatively high in the region as it remembers the war dead.
A Sri Lanka Air Force Bell 212 helicopter belonging to the No. 72 squadron has crashed into the Madhuru Oya reservoir this morning, Air FOrce Media Spokesman Eranda Geeganage said.
Update: Five of the twelve passengers on board the bell 212 aircraft that crashed into the Maduru Oya today, have succumbed to their injuries, the SLAF said.
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