Over 100 truck drivers stranded in Lithuania
Sri Lanka, April 27 -- 106 Sri Lankans who went to work as heavy vehicle drivers in Lithuania have been stranded in Europe due to lack of employment, food and accommodation facilities.
Two Sri Lankans who had been deported from Lithuania and were part of the group had arrived back at the Katunayake Airport and they had mentioned this predicament on April 26.
With the intervention of the government, 108 Sri Lankans, including the two of them, had registered with the Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), paid Rs.1.2 million to an employment agency in Colombo and left for Lithuania to work as heavy vehicle drivers. N. W.Priyantha, a resident of Unawatuna Galle, who arrived back in the country from Lithuania, mentioned the follow...
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