It is reported that the Railway Department has announced that many office trains may be canceled this morning (05) due to the railway strike.
The department said that all other trains may run late.
Thousands of people were in dire straits yesterday (04) due to the suspension of 78 office train journeys due to a strike that started after a dispute between a railway controller and a security guard regarding a cigarette.
A controller who had gone to receive a train at the Maligawatta railway yard had entered the yard by lighting a cigarette and at that time an officer of the railway security department who was guarding the railway yard asked where he was going.
The argument between the two then turned into a brawl, and based on that incident, the regulators started a strike from yesterday (04) morning.