Government to provide financial assistance to Priyantha Kumara's family

The Sri Lankan government has decided to grant Rs. 2.5 million on a humanitarian basis for the welfare of the wife and children of Priyantha Kumara who was brutally killed in Sialkot of Pakistan.

 

The said amount will be paid from the Employees’ Welfare Fund of the Bureau of Foreign Employment. The decision was reached after taking into consideration the extensive contribution made by Priyantha Kumara to the Sri Lankan economy over a period of eleven years as a migrant worker.

 

A mob in Sialkot – one of Pakistan’s most industrialized regions – on December 03 tortured a Sri Lankan man, who worked as a factory manager, to death before burning his body.

 

The arrest takes the number of apprehended prime suspects in the case to 27, including the one who plotted to assassinate the Sri Lankan manager, increasing the total number of in-custody suspects to 132.