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While the workmen of the Electrical Department of the River Valley Development Board, (Gal Oya) were engaged in cutting down a gigantic banyan tree at the Town Square on the Main Street, Akkaraipattu. The large tree with its massive weight came cr...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Two Men Were Buried alive at Belanwila
Two men, Piyasili and Sahul Hamid were buried alive at Belanwila yesterday morning when a 50 ft. earth embankment collapsed on them while they were collecting earth. Another man escaped with slight injuries. The lorry into which the earth was bein...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Two goods train collided in London
The scene in Kentish Town Road, North London, after wagons from two goods trains had crashed 25 ft. over a bridge on to the busy road recently. Fourteen people were taken to the hospital. The two goods trains were converging on a junction above th...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Picture shows a bogie of the Tundla-Farrukhabad passenger train reduced to matchwood as the result of the derailment last Sunday.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Udawela Divisional Secretariat Officers Making Inquiries
The officers from the Udawela Divisional Secretariat Office are making inquiries to gather information about the disaster of the earth slip. The house shown here had three of its residents dead from the disaster and their bodies had also been found.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Mayor of Colombo, Mr. V.A. Sugathadasa, inspecting the scene where two boys were injured early this morning when a section of a tenement which houses twelve families collapsed. The houses accommodates a private school but the building collapse...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Vajont Dam Crashes; 6 Villages wiped out and 4000 dead
Survivors embraced each other recently on the ground where earlier a 300-ft. high tidal wave gushed from the Vajont Dam and into the River Piave Valley, wiping out half a dozen villages including Longarone and killing more than 4000 people. So far...
Daily Mirror
A watcher, W. Paul Perera of Kelaniya, was found dead this morning under these sand bags which form a part of the 600-ton test platform at the CTO., building site. Perera was the night watchmen. When the workmen reported to work in the morning the...
The Times of Ceylon Press
A watcher, Welikalage Paul Perera (60) of Kelaniya, was found buried under a heap of about 1000 bags of sea sand yesterday morning at the building site of the new Overseas Telecommunication Services office in Colombo Fort. Perera was missing yeste...
The Times of Ceylon Press