COLOMBO (News 1st); A fire had broken out in the medicine storage of the Wellawa Hiripitya Regional Hospital.

The Police stated that the fire had spread when the main circuit caught fire near a shelf where medicines were stored, later the Police stated that the fire was put out within a few hours

As a result, few medicines in the hospital’s medicine store were destroyed.

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