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29 March 2024

16 houses attacked over inter-racial love affair

One of the houses damaged in the attack over an inter-racial love affair in Sri Lanka.

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At least 16 houses, including 15 belonging to Tamils, were attacked and damaged in Tangalle in Sri Lanka’s Southern province over a love affair between a married Tamil woman and a Sinhalese man, the ‘Colombo Gazette’ reported on Wednesday.

One of the attacked houses belonged to a Sinhalese. Eight people were arrested, police said.

Police said the husband of the woman had attacked her lover with a sharp object which had injured him after which a Sinhalese mob attacked and damaged things in three Tamil houses.

Two people including a woman injured in the attack were admitted to a hospital in Tangalle.