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Drug addicts cost Sri Lanka airport expressway billion rupees

Published Sunday, 14th June 2026 7:48 AM

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MONETABRIEF – Restoring damage caused mainly by thieving drug addicts to Sri Lanka's Katunayake expressway is estimated to cost more than a billion rupees, according to plans approved by the cabinet of ministers.

Thieves had damaged 85 percent of the lighting system of the Colombo-Katunayake expressway, a post-cabinet statement said.

Earlier reports said thieves had robbed electrical cables of the lighting system, which are made of metals like copper.

Initially the Peliyagoda, Kerawalapitiya, Seeduwa and Ja-Ela interchanges and the freeway from New Kelani Bridge to the Peliyagoda Fish Market and from Seeduwa to the Bandaranaike International Airport will be repaired.

The repairs in two packages are estimated to cost 1,098.50 million.

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