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|date=2025-02-14
|category=Enforcement
|title=Over 200,000 ganja plants destroyed in widespread STF operations
|summary=Coordinated STF raids across southern Sri Lanka destroyed a total of 367,276 cannabis plants across approximately 6.25 acres. STF Buttala Camp raided Zone 04 of the Yala Reserve, destroying 203,500 plants across four plantations on three acres, plus 153,850 plants across two further plantations on two acres. Four suspects from Thanamalwila, Panamura, and Ridibendiella were arrested. STF Lahugala Camp raided a separate one-acre plantation in Yala Zone 04, destroying 9,500 seven-foot plants and seizing 85 kg of dried cannabis, with five suspects arrested from Balangoda, Middeniya, and Embilipitiya. Mattala Police separately raided a quarter-acre cultivation in Pahala Mattala, destroying 426 plants and seizing a foreign-made 12-bore firearm from a 58-year-old suspect.
|source=https://www.newswire.lk/2025/02/14/over-200000-ganja-plants-destroyed-in-widespread-stf-operations/
|part_of_campaign=Sri Lanka eradication campaigns (2025)
|country=Sri Lanka
|admin1=Uva Province
|admin2=Monaragala District
|locality=Yala Reserve Zone 04, Pahala Mattala
|coordinates=6.40, 81.40
|growing_region=Uva
|growing_area=Yala-Lunugamvehera
|agency=Special Task Force, Mattala Police
|hectares=2.53
|plants=367276
|plot1_label=Buttala plot 1
|plot1_hectares=1.21
|plot1_plants=203500
|plot2_label=Buttala plot 2
|plot2_hectares=0.81
|plot2_plants=153850
|plot3_label=Lahugala plot
|plot3_hectares=0.40
|plot3_plants=9500
|plot4_label=Mattala plot
|plot4_hectares=0.10
|plot4_plants=426
}}
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[[Has event date::2025-02-14]]
[[Has event category::Enforcement]]
[[Has event headline::Over 200,000 ganja plants destroyed in widespread STF operations]]
[[Has event summary::Coordinated STF raids across southern Sri Lanka destroyed a total of 367,276 cannabis plants across approximately 6.25 acres. STF Buttala Camp raided Zone 04 of the Yala Reserve, destroying 203,500 plants across four plantations on three acres, plus 153,850 plants across two further plantations on two acres. Four suspects from Thanamalwila, Panamura, and Ridibendiella were arrested. STF Lahugala Camp raided a separate one-acre plantation in Yala Zone 04, destroying 9,500 seven-foot plants and seizing 85 kg of dried cannabis, with five suspects arrested from Balangoda, Middeniya, and Embilipitiya. Mattala Police separately raided a quarter-acre cultivation in Pahala Mattala, destroying 426 plants and seizing a foreign-made 12-bore firearm from a 58-year-old suspect.]]
[[Has source URL::https://www.newswire.lk/2025/02/14/over-200000-ganja-plants-destroyed-in-widespread-stf-operations/]]
[[Has part of campaign::Sri Lanka eradication campaigns (2025)]]
[[Has country::Sri Lanka]]
[[Has admin subdivision 1::Uva Province]]
[[Has admin subdivision 2::Monaragala District]]
[[Has locality::Yala Reserve Zone 04, Pahala Mattala]]
[[Has event coordinates::6.40, 81.40]]
[[Has growing region::Uva]]
[[Has growing area::Yala-Lunugamvehera]]
[[Has enforcement agency::Special Task Force, Mattala Police]]
[[Has hectares eradicated::2.53]]
[[Has plants eradicated::367276]]
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