A 25-year-old wildlife officer was shot and killed by poachers during a raid conducted inside the Galoya National Park last night (22).
Police said the incident occurred when a team of officers from the Department of Wildlife Conservation's Inginiyagala office were conducting a raid inside the park. They had been fired upon by a group of poachers, resulting in the death of the officer.
Four poachers have been taken into custody along with a 12-bore shotgun suspected to have been used in the shooting. Dambagalla police are investigating.
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.
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.
In his special statement, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that debt restructuring agreements will postpone all bilateral loan payments to foreign countries until 2028. Additionally, Sri Lanka will have until 2043 to repay these loans on concessional terms.
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