Sri Lanka: Britain issues travel warning

Friday, 26 October 2007

United States last Friday issued a fresh travel warning to its citizens updating its earlier one of April 2007 while other nations have already issued stringent warnings to its own citizens. THE British High Commission updating its travel advisory said yesterday that there is a ‘high threat of terrorism and indiscriminate attacks in Sri Lanka.’ "There is a high threat from terrorism. Attacks can be indiscriminate, and have occurred in places frequented by expatriates and foreign travellers," the High Commission said in the update carried out after the attacks in Anuradhapura this week and in Yala, last week.

British nationals were warned not to take up any travel to the north-east. "We advise against all travel to the north or east of Sri Lanka. For the purpose of this travel advice we consider the north to be all areas north of the A12 road (which runs from Puttalam in the west to Trincomalee in the east) including the Jaffna peninsula and the east to be the Districts of Trincomalee and Batticaloa, as well as coastal areas of Ampara District north of Pottuvil and east of the A25 and A27 roads," the warning states.

The new British advisory follows a similar caution issued by the US on October 19 following the Yala attack warning that the Tigers were active outside the northeastern theatre of war and there is a possibility of attacks on government, military and economic targets.

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