Tag: Sri Lanka

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Rescuers save some 100 pilot whales stranded in a Sri Lanka southwest beach

  

  Over 100 pilot whales have been saved after being stranded on Sri Lanka’s southwest coast. A combination of the country's navy and volunteers worked together on an overnight operation to push the whales back out to sea in Panadura, Sri Lanka.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 08:48 UTC

  Sri Lankan president bans face covering following the terrorist attacks

  

  Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday announced a ban on face-covering, a week after Islamist militants carried out coordinated suicide bombings that killed 253 people.

• Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Rift between Sir Lanka president and PM kept security forces on the black about the coming attacks

  

  A rift between Sri Lanka's president and prime minister, which sparked a crisis last year, came under scrutiny on Monday a day after a series of deadly bomb blasts, with questions over how the government handled a recent warning of an attack.

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Easter carnage in Sri Lanka: bomb attacks kill 207 and injure at least 450

  

  The Sri Lankan government has imposed a nationwide curfew after a string of bomb blasts at churches and hotels on Sunday that left 207 dead, including 35 foreigners, and at least 450 injured people have been admitted to hospital, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera told reporters in Colombo.