Srilanka, July 21 -- The Pottuvil Area Coordination Committee meeting on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution to take action to remove the Pottuvil Shabad House, which has become centre point of controversy in the area and led to tight security following bomb scare last year.

Chabad House is a religious and cultural centre run by the Chabad-Lubavitch Movement, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group based in New York, aimed at serving Jewish travellers, specially Israeli tourists, visiting the island nation.

However, there has been rising concerns over the Chabad House in this area, which is near a Muslim mosque and the U.S. Embassy in Colombo issued a travel alert level over possible terrorist threats in the Eastern coastal tourism hotspot....