Saturday’s shooting claims fourth life [October 10 2011]

The death toll in Saturday’s shooting incident at Walpola, Mulleriyawa rose to four when another seriously injured person succumbed to his injuries at the ICU of the National Hospital, Colombo. He was identified as   Manimel Kumarassamy of Mattumagala, Ragama.

Three others, including former parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and two of his bodyguards, died on Saturday following a shooting incident. Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has already begun its investigations though no arrests have been made so far.

Two residents of Kolonnawa - Mohammed Aseem (32) and Damitha Jayasekara (45) died on Saturday while two policemen and a civilian were critically injured. They are being treated at the Colombo National Hospital.