Trinco results suspended

The results from the Trincomalee electorate in the Trincomalee district have been temporarily suspended as a result of ballot papers from a poling booth in Kumburupitiya in the Trincomalee electorate being stolen by a gang last night.

Polling in one of the polling booths in Kumburupitiya in the Trincomalee electorate in Trincomalee had been annulled as a group had forced their way into the center and stolen most of the ballot papers.

Elections Department officials said that as a result of this incident only the results from the Seruwila and Muttur electorates in the in the Trincomalee district will be released. (Daily Mirror online)