Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 09:56 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Dec 29, Colombo: The Police Special Task Force (STF) has been deployed in the Mawanella town to tighten security following a suspected attack on a Buddhist shrine in the town.
According to the information received by the police, the glass enclosing the Buddha statute of the Shrine in front of the Dedimunda Devalaya near the Colombo Kandy Highway in the Hingula area in Mawanella had been damaged due to a stone thrown at it.
Army soldiers as well as STF police officers remain in the town while several police teams including the Mawanella Police have commenced investigations.
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20,000 KG OF SMUGGLED TURMERIC SEIZED
20,000 KG OF SMUGGLED TURMERIC SEIZED
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COLOMBO (News 1st): A stock of 20,000 kg of Turmeric smuggled to the country from India was seized by Police Special Task Force during a raid carried out in the Hungama police area, Sri Lanka Police said on Sunday (Dec. 27).
“A team of Police STF has detected 20,000 kg of Turmeric smuggled from India to Sri Lanka at 3:30 am on Sunday (27), at the Gurupokuna fisheries harbour in Kalamatiya of the Hungama police jurisdiction,” Police Spokesperson – DIG Ajith Rohana said.
According to the Police Spokesperson, four suspects were arrested and a trawler was seized during the raid.
Deur Bianca Du Plessis 09 Desember 2020 06:00 Local police, the SANDF and other law enforcement authorities executed a successful anti-poaching operation in the Overberg.
An anti-poaching operation executed by a multi-disciplinary task team last weekend netted five suspects and led to the confiscation of abalone with an estimated export value of more than R5 million.
Members of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), the Air Force, Police Sea Border Patrol Unit, Saps Air Wing, Police Special Task Force, Anti-Gang Unit, local police, Overstrand Law Enforcement and Traffic, Department of Environmental Affairs Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) and CapeNature, with the assistance of Bidvest Proteacoin NGO, targeted Dyer Island near Gansbaai on Sunday 29 November.