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640 displaced families return to Trincomalee

Trincomalee correspondent

uring the four months January to April 2003 six hundred and forty displaced families have returned to Trincomalee district from Vanni and other districts.

hile 114 displaced families have returned to Trincomalee Town and Gravets division, 302 families have gone back to Kuchchaveli division. 91 families returned to Gomarankadawala while 47 families have returned to Padavisripura. The returnees to other divisions are as follows, Tampalakamam 37, Muttur 34, Kinniya 12 and Echilampattai 3.

f this number 549 families have gone back to their original places, 72 are staying with friends and relatives and 19 families are staying at refugee camps. Upto April 30, 2003, the number of families living in refugee camps totals 1,216. They are staying at 12 refugee camps in Town and Gravets division (6) Kinniya division (2) Morawewa division (3) and Kuchchaveli division (1).

eanwhile 6,469 displaced families are staying outside refugee camps with friends and relatives and are drawing free rations. There are no refugee camps in the divisions of Tampalakamam, Muttur, Echilampattai, Gomarankadawala, Kantale, Padavisripura and Seruvila. However displaced families are staying outside camps in all the eleven divisions in Trincomalee district.

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