Give back our lands!
Several members of the Veddah community seen yesterday with a group of monks attached to Ravana Balakaya at the Mahaweli Authority in Colombo, demanding the lands they have lost a number of years ago, to the Mahaweli Development Project. Pix by Vimukthi Embuldeniya
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan authorities shut down a detergent factory in the its business capital Colombo on Tuesday after more than 70 people were hospitalised following a suspected toxic gas leak, police said.
Several members of the Veddah community seen yesterday with a group of monks attached to Ravana Balakaya at the Mahaweli Authority in Colombo, demanding the lands they have lost a number of years ago, to the Mahaweli Development Project. Pix by Vimukthi Embuldeniya
Sri Lanka shuts factory after suspected toxic gas leak
Oct 22, 2013
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan authorities shut down a detergent factory in the its business capital Colombo on Tuesday after more than 70 people were hospitalised following a suspected toxic gas leak, police said.
Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said 72 factory workers and nearby residents were taken to hospital earlier on Tuesday after gas - thought to be ammonia - leaked from the plant.
"Some of them are still in hospital eight hours after the incident was reported," Mr Rohana said.
"The initial investigations suggest there had been an ammonia gas leak from the plant," he said.
