Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Blast in Akuressa market seriously injures soldier

April 22, 2013, 10:15 pm

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Text and pics by Saman Upul Pinidiya

- Akuressa correspondent

One person was seriously injured and admitted to the Matara hospital following an explosion at a wholesale dealer’s shop in the Akuressa town public market early yesterday morning.

The explosion, which occurred between 6.00 and 6.30 a.m. caused severe damage to the shop. The adjoining shops suffered minor damages.

The victim was M. A. Chathuranga (28) a soldier, the police said.

According to eyewitnesses, as the keeper opened his shop they heard a loud explosion which rocked the area. An employee of the shop was suffering from shock.

Immediately after the incident Akuressa police, the STF and the army rushed to the scene.

At the time of going to press they had not established the nature of the explosive used in the blast, the police said.

The Chief Medical Officer of the Akuressa Hospital, Dr Manaka Widanapathirana said that the victim had suffered severe burns on his chest and the face and been transferred to the Matara hospital.

Akuressa police are conducting further investigations.

SARATH MANAMENDRA ARRESTED

April 23, 2013

Nawa Sihala Urumaya leader Sarath Manamendra has been arrested this afternoon by Welikada Police, acting on a warrant issued for his arrest for failing to appear in court.

He is currently detained at the Welikada Police Station and will be produced at court, police spokesman’s office said.

Manamendra was previously arrested by police in May, 2011 for allegedly threatening two persons with a firearm and again in May the same year on a warrant issued in relation to a domestic squabble.

Foreign woman raped by UPFA ruled PS chairman speaks

MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2013

The foreign woman who was raped by a group including the Chairman of UPFA ruled Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha after murdering her fiancé, 32 year old British Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, in the Nature resort Hotel in Tangalle on Christmas eve in 2011 has told her story for the first time.

24 year old Victoria Alexandrevna, the Russian fiancée of the murdered British national recalling the horrible memories of the incident has said that the gang of thugs stripped her and raped her after murdering her fiancée. She has said she has no confidence that justice would be done for the Crimes in Sri Lanka. However, she had said that she was determined to fight for justice.