COLOMBO (News 1st): A group of people have staged a protest obstructing the Kandy-Jaffna main road in Hichcikattiya, Maradankadawala. The News 1st correspondent reported that the group had started the protest by bringing in a corpse of a person who had died in an elephant attack.

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