Acting on a tip-off, officers from the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) yesterday (17) recovered a T-56 assault rifle and a magazine containing 20 T-56 live rounds hidden near a telephone pole next to a marsh land in Moronthuduwa.
Based on investigations made thus far, police believe that the weapon was the same one used to target a three-wheeler driver in Ahungalla on October 12, the Police Media Division stated.
The CCD and Moronthuduwa Police are conducting investigations to identify who had hidden the weapon at the location.
The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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