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Officer shot dead, 6 including 3 children injured in Piliyandala

An officer attached to the Police anti-narcotics unit was killed?and six others, including 3 children were injured in a shooting incident in Piliyandala. The shooting took place near a bank, the police said. The police said that the shooting took place during a raid on heroin dealers in the area. At least three vehicles were also damaged in the shooting carried out by gunmen on a motorcycle. (Colombo Gazette)

09 May, 2017

Sri Lankan in Canada found guilty of second-degree murder

A Canadian jury that had been deliberating since last week found Sri Lankan Amalan Thandapanithesigar guilty of second-degree murder for having stabbed his neighbour in C?te-des-Neiges. Thandapanithesigar was originally charged with first-degree murder, but the jury found him guilty of the lesser charge late Monday afternoon, the Montreal Gazette reported. It meant the jury was probably not convinced he planned the murder even though they heard evidence that, a week before the murder was carri

09 May, 2017

Wife of man found dead, daughter, son-in-law remanded

The wife of a man found dead?in Wattala, his daughter and son-in-law?were today ordered to be remanded till May 23 over his alleged murder. The man had gone missing and his family had claimed he had gone overseas. However police investigations found that the claims were false and further investigations led to the discovery of the body of the 65 year old man behind his house. The?wife of the?man, his daughter and son-in-law later confessed to killing him.?They said that he was killed for haras

09 May, 2017