Sri Lanka, Nov. 18 -- The Police have issued a statement of clarification regarding a video circulating on social media platforms, showing a tensed situation and a commotion that has taken place during the installation of a Buddha statue in a Dhamma School at Sambuddha Jayanthi Bodhiraja Viharaya in Trincomalee.

Police Media Division stated yesterday (17) that a complaint had been made to the Trincomalee Harbour Police by the Department of Coast Conservation on Sunday (16), about an unauthorised hut that is being constructed within a coastal area close to the Trincomalee town to install a Buddha statue.

Upon receiving this complaint, the OIC of Trincomalee Police Division and other Police officers have visited the site and ordered to st...