Employees of the Rupavahini Corporation are angered over a death threat to another of their colleagues.

Two armed men had gone to the residence of Duleep Sanjeewa, a Rupavahini staffer, at Kollupitiya and threatened him with death at gun point, Rupavahini Programme Producer Kanchana Marasinghe said yesterday.

He said Sanjeewa had made a complaint about the death threat to the Kollupitiya Police.

Journalists and other employees were living in fear after the assault on news producer Lal Hemantha and the death threat on a second employee of the corporation.

The incident involving Minister Mervin Silva at the Rupavahini Corporation earlier was being investigated by the CID and a three-member-committee of the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party was due to commence their own investigations today, Power and Energy Minister W. D. J. Seneviratne said.

The committee comprises the Leader of the House and Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister Seneviratne and Governor Western Province Alavi Mowlana.