COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug 31 (NNN-SL NEWS) – The Sri Lankan army has re-assured foreign tourists that, Sri Lanka was safe for travel, as the government had taken all precautionary measures, to arrest all those behind the Easter Sunday terror explosions, local media reported.
Sri Lanka Army Operations Director, Brigadier Upali Rajapaksa told journalists that, the government had beefed up security in several areas across the island where tourists could visit safely.
“We can assure that Sri Lanka is safe to travel, from North to South to West to East,” Rajapaksa said.
Following the deadly attacks on Easter Sunday in April, he said that security forces took all steps to stop possible escalation of violence, by providing an adequate number of troops on the ground, which helped prevent the situation developing into an ethnic conflict.
He said, to date, 162 suspects had been taken into custody, over the terror attacks.– NNN-SL NEWS
