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Lankans
in Britain mourn deaths of relatives The Tesco management is said to have told him he could take some leave if necessary and assured he would receive his salary, another Sri Lankan employee with Tesco, told the Sunday Times. Meanwhile, a person of Sri Lankan origin, Mercy Thilagarajan, who moved to England in 1993, has lost 32 of her relatives in the same disaster, The Guardian reported on Friday. The Batticaloa-born Ms Thilagarajan, 35, a shopkeeper in Ashford, Kent, is quoted as saying, "I felt helpless. I couldn't do anything. I was watching TV all the day and I was losing my mind. It is terrible to lose so many people, terrible." Another person from Batticaloa who believes he has lost some 20 close and distant relatives is Velupillai Srikantha, a builder from Barr Road, Batticaloa. He said that his uncle and relatives were living in houses close to each other. The houses have been demolished and their occupants dead or missing. |
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