Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Man arrested with some bullets

- BY ATULA BANDARA

A suspect was arrested with a stock of ammunition, used in automatic weapons, during a raid on a house at Yasasiripu­ra by the Anuradhapu­ra Police on Saturday.

The Police had carried out the raid and searched the house on informatio­n received by the Police Emergency Service, 119.

Two National Identity Cards, one belonging to a Muslim man the other belonging to Sinhala man from the Medawachch­iya area, were among other suspicious objects seized.

The suspect had told the Police that his grandfathe­r, who was a retired Police Officer, had brought the stock of ammunition.

He had said the stock of ammunition had been left in the house even after the death his grandfathe­r.

He was to be produced before Anuradhapu­ra Magistrate yesterday afternoon.

OIC Crime Investigat­ion Branch IP Gayan Samarakoon, Sergeant 64186, Upali and 54910, Wijesinghe are conducting investigat­ions on the instructio­ns of HQI Anuradhapu­ra Police CI Sanjeewa Mahanama.

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