UNP home and home match in A’pura

Amila Prabath Wanasinghe and Anuradhapura central spl cor

An incident of post-election violence is reported from the North Central Province where a victorious UNP candidate allegedly attacked a defeated candidate of the same Party by storming his house with a group of about 30 supporters around 11.30pm on Monday.

A vehicle damaged in the incident.

Two persons injured in the alleged attack named Chandrasiri, 45, and Prasad, 32, have been admitted to the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital.

According to the complaint made to the Anuradhapura Police by the defeated candidate E M Lalith Edirisinghe, his house near Hathuruswela Vidyalaya in Saliyapura had been allegedly attacked by victorious candidate Aruna Buddhika Gunasekera and his supporters numbering about 30 with arms, clubs and stones causing damage to two vehicles parked outside and injury to two of his supporters.

He has said his wife Nilinka and a brother were also assaulted during the attack and the four and a half sovereign gold necklace worn by his wife was also lost during the attack.

Anuradhapura Police investigating the incident said a supporter of Anura Buddhika Gunasekera, injured in the attack is also receiving treatment at the Anuradhapura Hospital.

No arrests have been made so far.