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Employee arrested for breaking into Indian Visa Centre!

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Five suspects, including an employee, were arrested for breaking into the visa center at Philip Gunawardena Mawatha, Thummulla which was attached to the Indian High Commission last evening (21). 

They suspects have stolen a laptop, a DVR recorder and a camera.

Police said the arrested employee is a 63-year-old janitor.

The suspect has informed her 54-year-old boyfriend that an amount of Rs.3-4 million is collected daily at the office. Accordingly, the boyfriend has deployed another friend of his to commit the robbery.

This friend had visited the office in the morning of February 14 along with three other suspects in a three-wheeler. Two suspects entered the office through a window while one suspect was on the lookout.

The suspects have been searching for money in the three-storied building but since they could not open the safe, they have stolen the chief officer’s laptop, a DVR recorder and a camera.

Subsequently, the police have looked into about 100 CCTV footage obtained from cameras along the road and arrested one suspect in Kirulapone.

According to the information revealed by him, the police said that the other three suspects and the suspect employee were arrested.

Police found the laptop and the camera from the houses of two suspects, while the DVR recorder was found in a canal in the Kirulapana area.

The suspects are residents of Kirulapone and Wellawatta.

Due to this break-in, the visa center was closed for five days from February 15 and it was reopened on the 20th.

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2 drownings today

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Two drowning incidents have been reported today (May 13).

In one incident, one person had drowned while 03 others were reported missing while bathing in the sea off Wennappuwa today (May 13).

Police said four persons from Nuwara Eliya were reported missing while sea bathing and that one body was later recovered.

Search operations are continuing.

Meanwhile, two girls who had gone to bathe in the Palukadawala Tank in Galgamuwa, Kurunegala, have also drowned.

The girls, aged 12 and 17 had gone bathing while they were visiting a relative in the area.

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Police assure that belongings of Kotmale accident victims are safe

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Kotmale Police have stated that luggage, mobile phones and other belongings of the passengers on the bus that met with a tragic accident at Gerandi Ella are safe with them/

Kotmale Police OIC Chief Inspector Vajira Ratnayake stated that the villagers who assisted authorities at the time of the accident handed over the passengers’ belongings to the Police.

The OIC also stated that 35 mobile phones, luggage and other valuables have been kept safe at the police station and can be obtained after the identities of the claimants are verified.

Meanwhile, it is reported that the bus conductor’s ticket book and the money he had collected could not be found.

The OIC had also stated that the exact number of passengers on the bus could not be ascertained due to the death of the driver and the fact that the conductor was receiving treatment in hospital.

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PSL 2025 to resume on May 17

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PSL 2025 will resume on May 17, with the final on May 25. The announcement confirms the league will end a week after it was originally scheduled to conclude.

The four remaining group games will take place at the Rawalpindi Cricket Ground, with the playoffs and final in Lahore. Aside from one afternoon game in Rawalpindi – between Multan Sultans and Quetta Gladiators on 18 May, all fixtures take place at night, with evening games starting at 7:30pm local time.

“HBL PSL X picks up from where it left off,” he wrote in the post,” PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi announced on X (formerly Twitter). “6 teams, 0 fear. Get ready for 8 thrilling matches starting 17th May, leading up to the Grand Final on 25th May. Best of luck to all the teams!”

The league, which was postponed due to increasing cross-border tensions with India, has eight games left.

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