Baddegama residents asked to evacuate urgently

28 May 2017 12:13 pm

About 200 families living along the stretch from Poddala to Baddegama had been instructed to evacuate immediately due to the rising water levels of Gin Ganga and a possible threat of breaking of the dam of the Gin Ganga water project.

Our correspondent said military personnel were fortifying the dam by stacking sandbags. (By D.G.Sugathapala)