Lanka sends rescue teams, aid to japan

Sri Lanka will dispatch a team of trained rescue workers and a medical team specialising in handling disasters to earthquake and tsunami-hit Japan.

Sri Lanka will dispatch a team of trained rescue workers and a medical team specialising in handling disasters to earthquake and tsunami-hit Japan.

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President Mahinda Rajapaksa directed treasury secretary P.B. Jayasundera to dispatch the teams at the earliest.

Reports added that Rajapaksa also directed the Secretary to send US dollars one million as a donation by the people of Sri Lanka.

In 2004, Sri Lanka was among the countries worst hit by the Boxing Day tsunami.