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Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said Sunday that election related violence and election law violations are on the increase in the North Central Province (NCP) and Sabragamuwa Province (SP) since the acceptance of nominations for the two provincial councils that are scheduled to be held on August 23.

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An unidentified youth was knifed to death Saturday night in Pampaimadu village in Vavuniyaa police division. Local residents discovered the body and notified Pampaimadu Village Officer (Grama Niladhari) Sunday morning. Vavuniyaa Police, on being informed by the the Village officer, rushed to the site and transferred the body to the Pampaimadu government hospital.

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Unidentified persons set fire Saturday around 9:30 p.m to more than fifteen temporary huts built by Muslims in Meeraavoadai in Koa?ra?laippattu Divisional Secretariat area in Batticaloa district, sources in Batticaloa said. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police had intervened earlier Friday in a confrontation between Tamils and Muslims related to ownership of lands in Meeraavoadai and dispersed the two parties, the sources added.

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Unidentified persons set fire Saturday around 9:30 p.m to more than fifteen temporary huts built by Muslims in Meeraavoadai in Koa?ra?laippattu Divisional Secretariat area in Batticaloa district, sources in Batticaloa said. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police had intervened earlier Friday in a confrontation between Tamils and Muslims related to ownership of lands in Meeraavoadai and dispersed the two parties, the sources added.

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The news of re-opening the cement factory at Kaangkeasanthu’rai (KKS) in the Jaffna Peninsula has been received with serious concern by academics and environmentalists from Jaffna. According to them, the factory, when it was functioning earlier, was a health hazard to the densely populated surroundings. It affected horticulture as crops were covered by cement dust. Above all, exploitative quarrying of limestone has already portended the possibility of seawater coming inside and polluting the entire groundwater table of the peninsula.

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A 13-year old school girl was seriously injured by a landmine Saturday while she was walking along a side road with her friends in Ariyaalai within Jaffna Municipal boundaries, source in Jaffna said. The teenager lost part of her right leg, and was transferred to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital for surgery, hospital sources said.

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A 13-year old school girl was seriously injured by a landmine Saturday while she was walking along a side road with her friends in Ariyaalai within Jaffna Municipal boundaries, source in Jaffna said. The teenager lost part of his right leg, and was transferred to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital for surgery, hospital sources said.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna has refused to allow resettlement in areas inside the High Security Zone (HSZ), but has given permission to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to settle in the no-man’s area adjoining the Front Defence Line (FDL) area in Valikaamam north, sources in Jaffna said.

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