Dengue inspectors assaulted

18 July 2010 06:57 am

By Amadoru Amarageeva


A group of Public Health Inspectors (PHI) who visited a village in Trincomalee last evening to inspect dengue breeding sites were assaulted by the father of a girl who died of dengue a few weeks ago, the Trincomalee police said today.

According to the police one PHI was admitted to hospital following the assault which took place when the inspectors visited the Palaithu village in Trincomalee as part of the nationwide program to eradicate the spread of dengue.

The police also said that some of the equipment used by the public health inspectors were also damaged during the incident. The father of the girl who had died after contracting dengue was subsequently arrested by the police over the assault. (Daily Mirror online)