Four Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel, who were on duty at the Southern Expressway (E01), have been hospitalized owing to injuries sustained due to an earth slip.

RDA Director General said that mounds of earth on both sides of the expressway near the 102nd kilometer post between Pinnaduwa and Imaduwa have collapsed onto the road in this manner.

Therefore, the residents living in the up-lying areas on both sides of the expressway section where the earth slip has taken place are requested to evacuate immediately to safer locations due to risks of further earth slips and rock falls.