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Three men in custody over last year’s killing of 2 policemen in Vavunathivu, says CID
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has established the identities of the culprits who murdered two policemen on duty at an isolated police post in Vavunathivu in November last year.
The killing of two police constables in the village of Vavunativu, near Batticaloa, had been a mystery and created a bogey of the resurgence of the LTTE. One ex LTTE cardre from Killinochchi was arrested by the police and was detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
Police spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said three suspects are now in CID custody.
Both policemen had been shot and their bodies had been mutilated.
The three suspects have also admitted to their role in the attempted assassination of Mohamed Naslim, coordinating secretary to Minister Kabir Hashim in Mawanella in March this year.
Police believe the attempt on his life was in retaliation for Mr Naslim’s role in identifying the suspects who, in December last year, damaged several Buddha statues in Mawanella.
The three suspects now in CID custody had allegedly killed the constables and taken their revolvers and used them for the shooting in mawanella. Police have recovered both service revolvers.
Dinesh Alagaratnam, 28, from the Kalmunai area, and Niroshan Indika, 35, a father of one from Udugama in Galle, were killed at dawn while on duty at a police checkpoint in a lonely spot in Vavunativu on November 29 last year.