Sri Lanka slips back to killing fields
By Our Police Correspondent
Mar 11, 2016 15:43 PM GMT+0530 | 0 Comment(s)
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's police found charred bodies of five people burnt inside a white van, just north of the Bandaranaike International Airport, on Friday despite a government crackdown on gang warfare.
Police said they suspected the killings may be linked to underworld criminal gangs, but there was also speculation on whether a pro-government hit-squad was responsibile.
President Maithripala Sirisena had last week ordered the military to jointly carry out operations against the underworld, but he had added that all measures should be within the law. Police had also brought back war-time road blocks with the objective of stopping crime gangs.
In another development, a woman was shot dead by a gang which burst into her home in the Moneragala district.
Police said the bodies burnt inside the van were beyond recognition, but they traced the vehicle to a finance company in Colombo and believed the victims may have been underworld figures.
(COLOMBO, March 11, 2016)
Police said they suspected the killings may be linked to underworld criminal gangs, but there was also speculation on whether a pro-government hit-squad was responsibile.
President Maithripala Sirisena had last week ordered the military to jointly carry out operations against the underworld, but he had added that all measures should be within the law. Police had also brought back war-time road blocks with the objective of stopping crime gangs.
In another development, a woman was shot dead by a gang which burst into her home in the Moneragala district.
Police said the bodies burnt inside the van were beyond recognition, but they traced the vehicle to a finance company in Colombo and believed the victims may have been underworld figures.
(COLOMBO, March 11, 2016)
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