According to the police, PHI had been on an inspection tour of the area accompanied by other workers.
The suspect got into an argument with the health official. When the PHI turned to leave, the suspect rushed out with a heavy pestle and struck him on the back of the head. When he fell the suspect struck him again. The other workers who had accompanied the PHI ran for their lives.
Meanwhile, the All Ceylon Health Service Union has blamed the government for exposing the health personnel to danger by making them conduct raids and impose fins. It demands that the government take action to ensure their protection. | 
A Public Health Inspector was assaulted to death with a wooden pestle yesterday near the Saliyapura Community Hall in Kantale while he was inspecting the compound of a house.
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Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
International community continuously hold debates on genocide attacks carried out by the racist government against Tamil’s in SriLanka. [
Peoples Front has pasted posters in Jaffna Peninsula on urging area residents to celebrate the war victory ceremony. [
The Ministry of Health re-appoints Mrs.Bawani Pasubathi raja has director of the Jaffna Teaching hospital. [
“Mann expressed concern that government forces had given excessive freedom to the LTTE-breakaway “Karuna group,” which was using this freedom destructively. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [