Hideous underground activities raise its head once again in Armour Street ... Antony shot dead while driving!

Hideous underground activities raise its head once again in Armour Street ...

Antony shot dead while driving!

A certain person alleged to be connected to the drug network of Makandure Madush who directs underworld activities while stationed at Dubai was shot dead at Armour Street yesterday (19) by 2 persons who had come on a motor bicycle. Gunshots aimed at the victim who had been travelling in the motor car resulted in his wife who was in his company too facing injury

and was admitted to hospital. B.M. Antony (42) is the victim in this instance and he was a resident of Veluwana Road, Dematagoda.

He had been imprisoned for a period of 11 years for the offence of keeping one and a half kilos of heroin in his possession and had been released about one and a half years ago; however he had got involved in the drug-trafficking network of Madhu, police have received information. The victim had gone to Aluthkade Courts with his wife yesterday (19) and was on his way to drop his wife to her worplace when this firing had taken place, police say.

A 9 mm. pistol had been used in the shooting, it has been revealed in police investigations. Police also say that how the assailants had fled after the shooting was seen on the CCTV footage of a shop in Armour Street. It came to be known to police that the deceased had not been frequenting his home at Dematagoda; but had been hiding in another area. Police suspect that the murder may have been carried out in connection with drug-trafficking. Armour Street Police are conducting further investigations.