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 Saudi Arabia will build a city named after Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah in a tsunami-affected area of Sri Lanka, Mohammed Mahmud Al-Ali, Saudi ambassador in Colombo who is currently on a visit to the capital, told Arab News yesterday. “Dubbed King Abdullah Model City, the integrated facility will have 500 houses, a clinic, a mosque, a school, a children’s playground and a shopping complex,” Al-Ali said, adding that the groundbreaking ceremony of the multimillion rupee project was launched recently in the district of Ampara, some 300 km from the capital Colombo. The envoy said that under a special program funded by the Saudi Charity Campaign (SCC), the Kingdom would construct 1,000 houses in the tsunami-affected areas, which would include 500 within the proposed city, and the rest in the districts of Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Hambantota. |