Acting on information received by police intelligence, a special police unit operating under the direct supervision of the DIG, North Central Province has arrested a Tamil employee of the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital for masquerading as a Sinhalese.

A senior police official told The Island that the suspect had accompanied the ambulance staff deployed to evacuate wounded army personnel brought to the Anuradhapura air base several times. He said that as an administrative officer the suspect couldn’t have accompanied the ambulance staff.

According to him, the 58-year-old suspect had been seen near the President’s House at Anuradhapura.

Responding to our queries, he said that that the Anuradhapura police had arrested the suspect several hours before Health Minister Nimal Siripala Silva visited the Anuradhapura hospital.