Police probe Kollupitiya blast

BY ASANGA Warnakulasuriya

A special police team of the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) yesterday commenced investigations into Wednesday's bomb blast near an Indian restaurant in Kollupitiya.

A Reserve Sub Inspector (RSI) of the Police Communications Division and two others were injured.

The CCD officers will question the Sub Inspector in connection with the explosion. He had allegedly accompanied a drug kingpin in Maligawatte to the restaurant on Wednesday night.

The RSI is receiving medical treatment under police security at the National Hospital, the Police said.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the RSI and two others had left the restaurant around 10.45 pm.

They were about to leave the premises in a police vehicle when the bomb went off. The police suspect that the bomb was fixed to the jeep. It had been revealed that the RSI was in civvies.

Director CCD, SSP Sarath Lugoda told the Daily News yesterday that the special police team is investigating to ascertain whether the explosion was caused by a grenade or explosives concealed inside the jeep. The CCD Director is conducting further investigations on the direction of Colombo DIG Sirisena Herath.