sentences:  On August 15, the Bishop of Batticaloa organized a security convoy from the city to bring back the trapped sisters and others.He informed Father Hebert to accompany the convoy on its way back from Valachchenai to Batticaloa.Instead Father Hebert informed the Bishop that as the situation was getting better he would leave on his own via a circuitous route through an ethnically mixed town called Eravur to Batticaloa as he had urgent matters to take care at the institute where he was the director.