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Muthaliff
shooting: court inquiry continues Police are due to submit a further report on the ongoing investigations including statements from eyewitnesses to the incident at Polhengoda, Kirulapone. Soon after the incident Mr. Pilapitiya had visited the scene of the incident. The Kirulapone Police which led evidence at the inquiry submitted a summary of the evidence in which the statement of the officer's driver, Private H. M. S. Herath, was included. In his statement to the police the driver said men wearing jackets riding a motorcycle had followed his vehicle and stopped alongside and then one of them had fired at Major Muthaliff. Herath said that although the Major had tried to shoot back at them with his own revolver, he was shot before that. After the shooting the assassin and his accomplice had fled on the motor cycle. The driver said he was taking Major Muthaliff to the Kotelawala Defence Academy as the latter was following a computer course there. The Police informed court that the Government Analyst's Department had commenced its investigations while fingerprint probes were also being carried out. The Police further said it had commenced special operations to take the assassins into custody and reported that investigations conducted up to now had revealed the shooting had been carried out with a mini Uzi or an M 16 firearm. |
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