Los #ferrocarriles🚂 de #SriLanka🇱🇰 anuncian una serie de medidas para reducir las muertes de #elefantes🐘 atropellados por locomotoras, entre ellas reducir el número de rutas nocturnas.

#noticias
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Sri Lanka adjusts train timings to tackle elephant deaths

Sri Lanka's wildlife and railway authorities announced on Friday a series of low-tech measures, including adjusting timetables to reduce night-time train collisions, following the worst wildlife accident that killed seven elephants.

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#SriLanka scrambles to restore #power after #monkey causes islandwide #outage

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Sri Lanka extended power cuts for a third day on Thursday as it scrambled to restore its national grid to full capacity after a monkey triggered a widespread #blackout over the weekend that disrupted supply to the island's 22 million people.

#disaster #fail #problem #electricity #news #ape

Sujou, macacada: un grupo de #monos🙈 se mete en un transformador en #SriLanka🇱🇰, causa un cortocircuito y deja la mayor parte del país sin #electricidad⚡ —al menos, esa es la versión del Gobierno

#energía #noticias
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Monkey clash leads to island-wide power outage - Top Story | Daily Mirror

A group of monkeys who entered the Panadura Power Station had ended up in a spat, interfering with the power grids, causing an islandwide power outage, sources from the Power and Energy Ministry said. ..

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My partner and I are planning out a short comic around the Sri Lankan ghost story, Mahasona (my partner is from Sri Lanka).

These are a few sketches I did related to that.

We decided Gotaimbara is a good cook - that's not necessarily canon. Also, we weren't sure what Gotaimbara's wife's name was, so we named her "Puthama" after my partner's grandmother.

#SriLanka #ghostStory #ghost #demon #Mahasona #legend #comic #indiecomics #MastoArt

20 years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, a boy found in the mud embraces being known as "Baby 81."

@AssociatedPress reports: "Jayarasa Abilash’s story symbolized that of the families torn apart by one of the worst natural calamities in modern history, but it also offered hope. More than 35,000 people in Sri Lanka were killed, with others missing."

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20 years after Indian Ocean tsunami, boy found in mud embraces being known as 'Baby 81'

The boy once known as “Baby 81,” who was pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, is now a 20-year-old dreaming of higher education.

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