Kebitigollawa: A home guard of Shravalkanda refugee camp was shot dead recently. The shooting had taken place at about 11.30 p.m. on the night of May 10.The home guard, N. G. K. Wijeratne is a father of two children.

Police said that when Wijeratne, of regiment No. 7752 returned home after his duties a person using a T-56 rifle had shot him.

Police found some T-56 cartridges in his garden.

According to Wijeratne’s brother, N. G. Premadasa, his younger brother who was shot dead had no enemies. "This is a job executed by the Tiger terrorists, and they had taken away his T-56 rifle too",he said.

"There is no proof for us to put the blame on the Tiger terrorists," said police Sgt. Dassanayake of the Kabitigollawa police.