Sri Lankan Police Arrest Owners of House From Where Shots Fired
Posted on: Saturday, 13 August 2005, 09:00 CDT
Text of report by the TamilNet website on 13 August
Police has arrested a Tamil couple, Mr Lakshman Thalaiyasingam, 58, and Mrs Vipiyan Selvalogini Thalaiyasingam, the owners of the house located at 42 Bullers Lane where the sniper had taken position to strike at Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Mr Lakshman Kadirgamar. Mr Thalaiyasingam, an executive officer in a leading Colombo business establishment, and his wife were at the house at the time of the incident and have told police that they had no knowledge that the assassin had taken position at the top floor of their house. The couple told the police that the top floor was rarely used by them. A bathroom window at the top floor of the house was broken and the sniper had used a 7 feet long steel stand to take position on the target.
Mr Thalaiyasingam's residence is located approximately 100 metres from where Mr Kadirgamar was struck, and security around that area is very tight due to the proximity of the location to the Swedish embassy, according to sources familiar with the area.
Water and soda bottles and a pair of foot slippers that were possibly used by the gunner, were recovered at the house.
Two different fingerprints were also recorded by the police from the bathroom of the house.
Police said they believed that the sniper had used an 8.3 mm gun with attached night zoom vision.
Four sniper bullets were fired, according to the police.
Police found four empty cartridge cases in the outside compound of the house.
A grenade-launcher-gun with 8 bullets was recovered behind a bush in the neighbourhood, police added.
The attackers could not have escaped far away from Colombo, according to the Inspector General of Police Mr Chandra Fernando. He added that special police teams and the members of the armed forces have been deployed in Colombo and suburbs to apprehend the assassins.
More than a thousand security personnel are continuing search operations in Colombo's Wellawatte, Bambalapitya and Kirillapene areas.
Armed Force personnel were deployed on the streets and key locations in Colombo to search the vehicles and the buildings. [passage omitted]
Source: BBC Monitoring Newsfile
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