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Father kills kids, commits suicide

A father killed his two children and then?committed?suicide in Kandy today, the police media unit said. The police said that the father had given his two children poison following a personal?dispute?at home and killed himself. The incident had been reported to the police at round 8.30 in the night from the house located at Peradeniya road in Kandy. One child was aged eight and the other child aged four while the father was aged 44, the police media unit said. Investigations into the incident are

08 Feb, 2013

Phone retrieved from inmates rectum

A Sri Lankan prisoner who tried to hide his mobile phone during a search of his cell was caught out when guards heard ring tones from his rear-end, a hospital official said on Friday. The 58-year-old convict had to be admitted to the national hospital in Colombo where doctors later retrieved the handset from his rectum, an AFP news report said. “The man had concealed the phone inside his person,” the official said, asking not to be named. “Unfortunately for him, the phone rang at the wrong time

08 Feb, 2013

Police standby arresting school girl

The police media unit says the arrest of a 13 year old school girl for stealing coconuts in Horana was legal. Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella had said yesterday that the issue was discussed at the Cabinet Meeting this week at length and President Mahinda Rajapaksa spoke very emotionally about it. He said the President had ordered an urgent and special inquiry into the incident. The student stole the coconuts to sell and get money to pay to paint her school after the school principal had inst

08 Feb, 2013