Sri Lanka, July 28 -- Sri Lanka Police has provided a telephone number for the general public to report information regarding any activities related to child labour in Colombo city or suburbs.

Police spokesman Senior DIG Ajith Rohana said a special operation was initiated yesterday in the Colombo city and suburbs areas in the Western Province in order to trace offenders in respect of child labour activities.

He said it has been observed that underage children had been brough to Colombo specially from hill country areas in Central Province for child labour activities.

"Therefore, we are conducting this operation. Two police teams had been deployed to check certain places and accordingly the operation was conducted in Modara and Kollupit...