Although a section of the Police attempted to attribute
last week’s killing of a 19-year-old youth in Mawanella to accidental
discharge of a galkatas (improvised gun) while a group of youth was
on a drinking binge, the former Health Minister of the Sabaragamuwa PC
Lalith Dissanayake, an SLFP candidate contesting the forthcoming election,
yesterday said he had been shot by an Army deserter for no apparent
reason.
The victim was one of his supporters.
The Mawanella police initially played down the incident,
dismissing it as an accidental death caused by a person trying to show off
his weapon.
Lalith Dissanayake told The Island that the 19-year-old youth had
been shot at ...
