Sri Lanka to summon Malaysian envoy over High Commissioner attack

Malaysia's envoy to Sri Lanka is to be summoned on Monday after Sri Lanka's High Commissioner was attacked by anti-Rajapaksa protesters in Malaysia this weekend. 

"The Malaysian envoy in Sri Lanka would be summoned to the Ministry this morning to register protest," the deputy foreign affairs minister, Harsha de Silva was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying. 

"The Sri Lankan government condemned this incident in the strongest possible terms," he said, adding "the Malaysian authorities were conducting investigations". 

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