Sixty-three (63) female inmates, seven male inmates and a Special Task Force personnel who was on duty at Welikada prison have been tested positive for COVID-19, police said.
Meanwhile, another seven inmates at Bogambara prison have also been infected with the virus.
All COVID-infected prison inmates are being treated at the heavily guarded Welikanda treatment centre in Polonnaruwa.
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
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.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
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