COLOMBO: The Mirihana Special Crime Investigation Unit of Police has arrested three persons including a woman in connection with the shooting that killed a Police Narcotic Bureau officer and an 11-year-old girl and injured three others earlier this month. The woman and the two men were arrested last night in Ahangama. They will be produced before the Kesbewa Magistrate Court today, the police said.
The trio, between the ages of 22 and 44, are residents of Ahangama. They will be charged with aiding the suspects to commit the crime, losing crucial evidence, providing false information to investigators and abetting the suspects after the shooting. Two armed gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a team of officers of the Police Narcotics Bureau in Piliyandala when the team, on information received, arrived to bust a large drug racketeering gang in Piliyandala on 9th May. Police Constable Chaminda Abeywickreme was killed at the shooting and an 11-year-old girl, succumbed to her injuries while undergoing treatment at the National Hospital in Colombo last Friday. Police Inspector M. Neomal Rangajeewa, Constable Chaminda of the Police Narcotic Bureau and a teenage boy suffered serious injuries.
