Sunday, September 14, 2008

Villagers fume after wild elephant kills man

M. A. R. MANUKULASOORIYA , Daily News
September 11, 2008

Nearly 1,000 villagers from Gomadiyagala in the Polpithigama police area launched an agitation campaign against Wildlife Officers on Tuesday after a 25-year-old man was killed by a wild elephant near the Hakwatuna oya reservoir in the Polpithigama Divisional Secretariat division.

The Divisional Secretary promised that he would take every possible action on this matter.

The villagers forcibly opened the gate of the Divisional Secretary's office and entered the premises and made a complaint regarding the wild elephant menace to Divisional Secretary, R.M.R. Rathnayake.

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