All devotees planning to visit Kandy to venerate the Sacred Tooth Relic at the Sri Dalada Maligawa have been requested to refrain from entering the city until further notice.
The Kandy Divisional Secretary made the request from devotees due to large crowds arriving for the ‘Siri Dalada Vandanawa’, a special exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic at the Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy.
The event, being held after 16 years, is underway for the seventh consecutive day today.
The Police yesterday requested devotees to refrain from visiting Kandy today and tomorrow, as over 300,000 devotees were already in queues as of last evening.
The ‘Siri Dalada Vandanawa’ was officially inaugurated by the President on 18 April and is scheduled to continue until 27 April. (Newswire)