Double trouble: Sri Lanka's twins gathering marred by overcrowding

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COLOMBO (REUTERS) - Thousands of twins packed two-by-two into a stadium in Sri Lanka's capital on Monday (Jan 20) - so many that officials struggled to count them in time to prove they had organised a record-breaking gathering.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

COLOMBO - Thousands of twins packed two-by-two into a stadium in Sri Lanka's capital on Monday - so many that officials struggled to count them in time to prove they had organised a record-breaking gathering.

"The counting is still going on. We will submit the final count and the documentation back to the Guinness World Record committee and I am confident we will be informed in writing that we hold the record," Upuli Gamage, co-organiser of the event with her twin Chamali, told the crowd.

 

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