Friday, July 31, 2015

Shooting at Ravi’s meeting: Hybrid car allegedly involved with T56 cartridge case discovered at Bloemendhal housing complex


LEN logo(Lanka-e-News- 31.July.2015, 11.00PM) A vehicle suspected to have been used in the Bloemendhal road shooting was discovered this evening at the Bloemendhal housing complex . A T 56 cartridge case  was also found in the vehicle, according to police  media spokesman.
Following information provided by an informant that a group of ‘big made’ men from  the suspicious vehicle went into a house within the complex , the police had been able to detect this vehicle. This is a hybrid Dark Ash colored car. While the police did not confirm that anybody who arrived in the car was arrested , eye witnesses say  some youths had been arrested
Eye witnesses who saw the firing at Ravi Karunanayake’s supporters during noon said , the assassins came in two black hybrid cars. Four individuals who alighted from one of the cars carried out the shooting ,and they were not wearing masks , the onlookers revealed. 
The supporters were lighting crackers when these assassins began firing. Because the sound of crackers and the shooting could not be distinguished , the attackers after firing had got on the vehicles and sped away, by the time people learnt of the shooting.The empty cartridge that was found at the scene of the crime belongs to a T 56 weapon .

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