Police recover four suicide jackets in Wellawatte
Suspect leaps to death; Three more suicide bombers
arrested:
Harshini Perera and Suranjith Perera
A 32-year-old LTTE suspect committed suicide by jumping out of a
seven storied building at 37th Lane, Wellawatte during a raid conducted
in Wellawatte on Thursday night at 9.35 p.m.
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The Sunflower Court in Wellawatta. Picture by Sudath
Nishantha |
The suspect, Sathish Kumar had been living in Sunflower Court
Wellawatte. Police recovered four suicide jackets and a claymore bomb
from the flat.
According to Wella-watte Police three suspects who were arrested have
been identified as suicide bombers.
They were undergraduates of the Moratuwa University including the one
who jumped to his death.
Additional Magistrate of Mt.Lavinia, Darshika Wimalasiri conducted
the postmortem on Thursday.
She requested police to send a medical report of the dead and an
inclusive report on the incident to Court.
The suspect was a resident of Jaffna and was said to be a student of
the Moratuwa University Engineering Faculty. Police arrested several
persons who were associated with Sathish Kumar and are carrying out
further investigations, police spokesman, SSP Ranjith Gunasekara said.
Further investigations are carried out under the inspection of State
Inteligence Service officers and OIC of the Wellawatte Police Chief
Inspector Mangala Dehideniya and CID officers led by Lakmal Amarasekara. |
