Night club owner STABBED TO DEATH

Victim holds many Guinness Records

Nightclub owner and karate champion Wasantha Soyza had been stabbed to death by an unidentified gang in Anuradhapura on Saturday night, the Police said.

The crime had taken place at the nightclub at Muditha Street in Anuradhapura at around 11.45 p.m. Saturday night.

The 57-year-old nightclub owner, who was also a karate champion, holds Guinness World Record of breaking 12 slabs of concrete in one blow.

Police Spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara said that a gang of 20 masked men entered the nightclub and attacked its owner and employees with clubs, sword and sharp objects.

He said the nightclub owner and three other persons including the manager, who were injured during the attack, had been rushed to the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital and Soyza died after admission to the hospital.

Nightclub owner and karate champion Wasantha Soyza had been stabbed to death by an unidentified gang in Anuradhapura on Saturday night, the Police said.

He said several vehicles that were parked outside the nightclub were also damaged during the incident.

According to the Police the nightclub owner was blamed couple of times for running a nightclub in Anuradhapura, which is considered a sacred city.

Police said the incident had been recorded on the CCTV camera and according to CCTVfootage that the gang had fled from the scene stealing money and liquor bottles.

A Police officer was also killed at the same location earlier. Police said so far no one had been arrested in connection with the incident and several masks and gloves believed to be used in the attack had been recovered abandoned at a place near theAnuradhapura Maithripala Park.

Anuradhapura Acting Magistrate Priyadarshani Kariyawasam conducted the magisterial inquiry.TheAnuradhapura Police are investigating.