Batticaloa
Americannoun
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Moinudeen, an imam from the eastern city of Batticaloa, the site of one of the Easter bombings.
From New York Times • May 5, 2019
Even Batticaloa, the east’s second city, seemed stunned into inertia by the sun, while on the outskirts the rice farmers plodded resolutely on, throwing handfuls of seeds across flooded paddies.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2016
Vallipuram Amalanayagi, 41, from Batticaloa in the east, said she and her family already knew what was in the report before its publication.
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2015
Plying the Batticaloa lagoon are fishing boats of the type used in the people-smuggling operations - small, cramped, uncomfortable vessels.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2013
We had quitted the Batticaloa track, and we immediately dismounted, unsaddled, and turned the horses loose upon the grass.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
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