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By V.S. Sambandan
COLOMBO, MARCH 29. Sri Lankan authorities today withdrew the tsunami warning as life returned to normality along the panic-stricken coastline. "We have withdrawn the warning. There is no tsunami," an official in the Meteorological Department told The Hindu this evening. The President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, who held an emergency meeting last night, reviewed the situation with officials today. Barring a "minor retraction" of the sea along the east coast around 2.00 a.m., the tsunami warning was uneventful. According to reports from the east, at least two persons were killed in panic reaction. Last night, residents along the coast fled to safer destinations nearly 2 km inland, after local authorities issued the tsunami warning. Ruling party sources see yesterday's warning as a point in support of the Government's move to implement a 100-metre buffer zone. Television stations, which normally go off the air around midnight, carried night-long special bulletins in Sinhalese, Tamil and English.
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