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I was in Colombo just a couple of months back, just prior to the rains and on one of the free evenings, I took a stroll to one of the tourist places within Colombo, by the name Galle Face Green. I don’t know the logic of the name associated with this place but I found it a nice place, centrally located near to Colombo Fort Railway Station, which is the centre of the city.

So What Exactly is Galle Face Green ?

This is like an Urban Park, an open space really, spread over an area of 12 acres, with benches etc. On one end, you have the sea and the other end has got a main highway that starts from Fort Railway Station, passing through this place and stretchesDozens of people died after a gunman whom police described as a robber fired shots and set fires at a casino resort complex in the Philippines.

All of the 36 victims died from suffocation or smoke inhalation after casino tables were set ablaze, Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said.

The attacker also apparently killed himself during the incident at Resorts World Manila in Pasay City, a southwestern suburb of the capital.

Stephen Reilly, the casino's chief operating officer, later said that 35 people had died — 13 employees and 22 guests — in what he described as a "senseless attack." The reason for the discrepancy between the death tolls was not immediately clear.

Earlier, local and national police insisted for hours that only the gunman died in the incident, which began shortly after