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Karaputugala is a village in Matara District, Sri Lanka, [1] 22 kilometers away from Matara. It is about 4 kilometers from Kamburupitiya.
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Location of the school. ovitigamuwa Mr/Ovitigamuwa Maha Vidyalaya is situated in Karaputugala village which is 41/2 miles away from Kamburupitiya town in Matara District of Southern Province in Sri Lanka. For further details www.omv.sch.lk
The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,700 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused over 30,000 reported deaths and billions of rupees in property damage in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka.
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