


A Sri Lankan national, working in Kuwait, was sentenced to death by hanging, by a Kuwaiti Court, for being in possession of 13.5 Kgs of heroin, reports from Kuwait said yesterday.
According to the current street value the haul of heroin was worth over ten million Sri Lankan rupees, Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment sources said.
They said they were trying to get all the details on the Sri Lankan National and had made an appeal against the death penalty, but all details on the case and his identity have not been received as yet.
Lankan students trapped in quake hit China
Twenty five Sri Lankan students are among
those stranded by the earthquake in Sichuan Province of China, Sri
Lankan Ambassador in China Karunatilaka Amunugama told The Island
yesterday.
No
decision on CM
A meeting that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had with
UPFA leaders yesterday ended without a final decision on the Eastern
Province Chief Minister.


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