Puthur bank robbery- CID grills suspects
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID)
probing the Puthur bank robbery last month took in for questioning
six suspects, and quizzed them whether there were others linked to
the robbery. The six suspects wanted in connection with the daylight
bank robbery at Puthur, Batticaloa last month were arrested recently
by a team of police officers led by HQI of the Mannar police
following a tip off.
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Bandaragama housemaid’s death baffles sleuths
Is Bandaragama gradually acquiring the notoriety
status of Kahawatte where several women were killed in the past? Two
unmarried women had been gruesomely killed at Bandaragama as in
Kahawatte, whose killers are still at large. It was on July 23 that
the killing of a feeble old servant woman was reported to the
Bandaragama police station. She had been strangled to death by
unknown assassins. However the motive for her killing is still not
clear.
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