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
Dr Gadambanathan, the consultant psychiatrist at the Batticaloa Hospital, visited some of the injured children immediately after the attacks.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2019
East N’ West On Board connects you with families in sedate Batticaloa, on the island’s east coast.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2018
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
We now heard of three days' journey to Oomanoo, which was certainly some where in the very centre of the Veddah country; and our quaint little guide had never even heard of the Batticaloa road.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
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