Ashoka Wadigamangawa dies in a motor accident
Posted by Editor on July 5, 2020 - 5:28 pm
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Puttalam District candidate and former parliamentarian Ashoka Wadigamangawa (68) has died in a road accident at Padeniya on the Kurunegala-Puttalam road, police said.
Police said his vehicle had rammed onto a lorry travelling in the opposite direction.
Ashoka Wadigamangawa who sustained critical injuries in the accident, succumbed on admission to the Wariyapola Base Hospital.
Mr. Wadigamangawa is a former North Western Provincial Councilor and former Minister of Health, Indigenous Medicine, Sports & Youth Affairs of the North Western Province.

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