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Roads leading to Parliament will not be closed in future during sessions since security has improved, Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekera said. He said that Parliament roads were closed during Parliament sessions due to the security threat to Ministers and MPs and VIPs attending Parliament.
A team of 20 competitors and seven officials will leave the shores to participate at the forthcoming Lusofonia games to be held in Portugal. Nine athletes (six men and three women) eight beach Volleyaballers (four men-four women) two Paddlers (men) and Taekwondo player comprise the competitor list.
A Tamil Tiger insurgent grabbed the gun of a Sri Lankan soldier conducting a search of a suspicious boat and shot three troops, killing one, the military said Sunday.
The military in Sri Lanka said yesterday that a large stock of gold and jewellery had been recovered from the former rebel held territory in the north.
During the present search and clearing operations conducted in the newly liberated areas troops attached to Task Force 8 recovered 1,040 large and small gold bangles and 20 other damaged gold bangles and pieces, Military Spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said.
W. C. B. Fernando Puttalam group corr. A group of 14 treasure hunters who pleaded guilty before Puttalam District Judge and Magistrate Sesiri Herath were fined Rs. 50,000 each and in addition sentenced to a term of one year’s imprisonment suspended for five years.
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