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Seven sex workers tested positive for STDs in Vavuniya, clients asked to consult docs
By Dinasena Ratugamage
Vavuniya police have made a public appeal to those who visited a brothel at Thekkawatte, Vavuniya, to consult doctors because all seven women arrested during a recent raid had tested positive for sexually transmitted diseases.
A senior police official said that the suspects had been tested at the Vavuniya General Hospital before being produced in court.
They had tested positive for genital herpes and gonorrhoea, the official said, urging those who obtained the services of sex workers in the Vavuniya area to have themselves tested immediately.
It has been reported that the death toll in the Gerandi Ella accident which took place this morning has risen to 21. It has also been reported that the government wil rs 1 million as compensation to the families of the victims.
It has been reported that the death toll in the Gerandi Ella bus accident has risen to 11
It has been reported that Eight persons [five males and three females] have died when a SLTB bus operating from Kataragama to Kurunegala via Nuwara Eliya, veered off the road and went down a precipice early morning today (11) in Gerandi Ella in Ramboda along the Nuwara Eliya – Gampola main road, Police said.
At least 37 others injured in the accident, have been admitted to the Nuwar Eliya and Kothmale hospitals.
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