Illegal abortion clinic raided

Katugastota Police on a tip off raided a house at Kahalla where an illegal abortion clinic was housed and took into custody a doctor, an ayurvedic physician, a nurse and two women from Kandy and Peradeniya who had come for abortions.

The suspects had charged Rs. 6,000 for an abortion, the investigations have revealed. Further investigations are being conducted under the direction of Katugastota Police OIC S.B. Diyakelinawala.