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Sri Lanka's biggest garbage mountain, growing in height day by day, at Bloemendhal Road, Colombo 13 has become a menace. It could explode if fire spreads to the methane gas emanating from the lower levels of the dump, the Colombo Municipal Council Public Health Department warned yesterday.

A recent fire in a section of the dump had aggravated an already bad health hazard, residents of the area complained yesterday (26).
The Colombo Municipal Council Public Health Department warned that the mountain of garbage was burning from inside even after the Sri Lanka Air Force had doused the flames engulfing its surface.
The garbage mountain stands on a wetland of 22 acres and about 70 80 tons of the city's garbage are dumped regularly.
The stench emanating from the dump after the fire is unbearable, residents complain.

Director of the Disaster Relief Services Centre Nimal Hettiarachchi said there had been a fire last year as well and that 43 houses had been completely damaged by it. The Centre had donated Rs. 50,000 to put up temporary shelters for the victims. He said those who were living in the vicinity of the garbage mountain were squatters.
He said there were around 10,000 families living in the area adjacent to the garbage dump while around 1,500 families were living quite close to it. They were reluctant to leave the area for various reasons, he said.

The CMC fire department, too, attempted to douse the fire and one of its fire fighting vehicles had got stuck in the dump.
The CMC has issued notice on the company responsible for dumping garbage at Bloemandhal to clear it up as soon as possible.
However, residents say the CMC should go beyond issuing notices and find a long term solution before the Mount Garbage explode destroying lives and causing irreparable damage to environment.

Chennai is busy Googling toilets in Colombo streets.. hahahha

The Anuradhapura Magistrate yesterday reprimanded the police for failing to establish even the sex of the suicide bomber who caused a massive explosion in the heart of the city killing Major General Janaka Perera and about 30 others.

Magistrate Ruchira Weliwatta expressed his dissatisfaction at the progress of the ongoing inquiries when the Anuradhapura police submitted a report on the incident and said last Monday s dastardly suicide attack was a major act of brutality.

Anuradhapura Sergeant Abeysinghe said the police were still to establish the sex of the suicide attacker.

The magistrate told the police officer that the investigators should have referred samples of the body for DNA testing if they were keen on establishing the sex of the bomber.

He reprimanded senior police officials for detailing a police sergeant to make submissions in court and summoned the senior-most official responsible for the investigations to appear in court immediately.

The Magistrate directed that the video tape recovered from the scene of the crime be played during the course of the day and that eye witnesses to the incident be produced for questioning.

Janaka Perera was killed in a suicide blast during the opening of the UNP office in Anuradhapura.The suicide bomber struck at a ceremony to coincide with the formal opening of the office close to a bus stand in the town.

Police allege that the attacker embraced the former commander while setting off the explosion.

The UNP charged that the assassination of North Central Province opposition leader Janaka Perera highlighted the negligence on the part of the government to provide him proper security and the shoddy treatment meted out to a much decorated war hero

Good Work Karuna !

No wonder you are getting promoted as Minister !