88 SL migrants arrested seas off Negombo

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Eighty Eight Sri Lankan including a woman who attempted to migrate overseas illegally, had been arrested by the Sri Lanka Navy today in the seas off Negombo, Navy Spokesman Dinesh Bandara said.

“A patrol vessel of the Sri Lanka Navy detected migrants who tried to leave the country on a multi-day trawler,” he said.(DS)

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Mandayan Tuesday, 11 September 2018 04:49 PM

What are you going to do in a foreign country if you don't have the basic education? Sweeping the roads and cleaning the toilets or at best making salads, if allowed. Both jobs are available back home. Please don't take the sales pitches of the traffickers and pay for the dangerous journey.

Ahmed Wednesday, 12 September 2018 01:33 PM

here are the people who make our passport one of the worst passports in the world. strict action should be taken against these people

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