A thirty-year-old Hindu temple in the Central Provincial town of Dambulla, was demolished overnight reports Colombo Telegraph.
The shrine to Badhrakaali Amman was razed to the ground, despite appeals made to the President by Tamil politicians, and joins a long list of non-Buddhist places of worship that have come under attack.
Western Provincial Councillor N Kumar Guruparan, who had personally taken up the matter said:
"There is a group of Buddhist fundamentalists eager to change the history of Tamils and Hindus and Muslims in Dambulla."