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The postmortem report is to be presented to court on Monday.
The teenager was a resident of Dayagama and had come to work as a maid at the former minister’s house , police said.
Sri Lanka’s overcrowded prisons housed 28,000 to 30,000 prisoners at any given time before the pandemic.
Reports showed inmates at the Welikada prison protesting from the roof of a building at the prison premises.
"There is nothing about accountability or amnesty"
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