Sri Lanka, March 5 -- Senior Journalist, Newspaper Editor and Diplomat Bandula Jayasekera has passed away at the age of 60 this morning.

He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Daily News and as a columnist for Midweek Mirror and for a short period of time.

He has also served as a diplomat in Australia, Canada and also as Sri Lanka's Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York.

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