Information About Incident 39897-76391-186005 in Badulla Sri Lanka

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He pointed out that the recovery of several claymore mines near the place where the President's helicopter was kept grounded recently in Badulla as the closest attempt to kill the President.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Badulla
• Matched District: Badulla
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: the President 's helicopter
• Subject: the President

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Although the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was completely defeated certain plots are in the process to assassinate President Mahinda Rajapakse, the Government said on September 10. Speaking at the emergency debate in the Parliament, leader of the House, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, said as a result of those attempts the Government needs to extend the emergency further. He pointed out that the recovery of several claymore mines near the place where the President's helicopter was kept grounded recently in Badulla as the closest attempt to kill the President. According to Minister de Silva there are more threats to the President's life at the moment despite the LTTE was militarily defeated. He further added that some are indirectly assisting those attempts by demanding to lift the emergency.

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