Sri Lanka, Aug. 26 -- Six people were killed in road incidents and drownings across the country over the past twenty-four hours.

Four of the deaths were on the roads, and among them, according to the Police Media Division, were a seven-year-old girl and two women.

A forty-three year old man drowned while bathing at the Kalu-wewa tank in Dehiattakandiya.

And in Kalpitiya, a twenty-one-year-old, who had put out to sea in a fishing boat from the Janasavipura beach, drowned.

Meanwhile, with a long weekend in progress, there was heavy traffic this morning at several of the exit points on the Southern Expressway, on the Outer Circular Expressway, and on the Central Expressway.

On the Southern Expressway, on the lane running towards Galle, ...