Sources: RTÉ
Three women are killed in a stampede in Colombo, Sri Lanka, during an US$8 cash handout at a businessman's warehouse. 2020-05-21
A soldier is killed and another injured after a fire spread to an ammunition dump at the Salawa army camp near Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. Thousands of people in the area were evacuated. The fire is under control, according to a military spokesman. 2016-06-6
Several people are injured in Sri Lanka's largest city Colombo when Buddhist monks lead hundreds of people to attack a Muslim owned clothing warehouse. 2013-03-29
At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and guards at Welikada prison in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. 2012-11-10
Sri Lanka marks the third anniversary of the end of its 26-year civil war with a large military parade in Colombo. 2012-05-19
Riots break out in a prison in central Colombo, Sri Lanka, injuring 31 inmates and guards. 2012-01-25
At least three people are killed and 25 injured in a train crash near the Alawwa railway station, 60 kilometres north of Colombo in Sri Lanka. 2011-09-17
Record rains cause flooding in Sri Lanka leaving 36,000 families in the western provinces homeless and leaving the Parliament of Sri Lanka in Colombo under four feet of water. 2010-11-11
Britain's High Commission in Colombo lifts travel advice restrictions on Sri Lanka for the first time in approximately 30 years. 2010-08-6
A top civil service union in Sri Lanka condemns the tying to a tree of an official by a government minister in Colombo, a disagreement related to dengue fever. 2010-08-3