Police raid gambling spot at funeral house and man dies from shooting

Police raid gambling spot at funeral house 

and man dies from shooting

A team of police officers had raided a spot on a tip off received that a group of persons were involved in gambling in the night after funeral activities in a certain house in Kaluwalagoda, Uragaha in Elpitiya area was over day-before-yesterday (13). During the process of nabbing

the offenders a commotion had taken place and an incident of shooting has taken place and a father of two had been killed in the instance. On that occasion some agitation has flared up between the crowd inside the house and police officers and it has ended up in fisticuffs too.

When this incident was taking place, a firearm which was in the hands of a certain police officer had gone off killing a person who was there at the time. The deceased was H.H. Jayawardena (54), a father of two and a resident of Kurundugahahethepma area who incidentally was a relation of the funeral house where the funeral was held.  In this instance police officers too had been subjected to assault and admitted to hospital. Even the motor cycles in which they came were damaged by some people. Some teams of police officers who came from Pitigala, Elpitiya, Urugasmanhandiya and Ahungalla police stations had taken steps to settle the incident. By now an Assistant Superintendent of Police has launched investigations under instructions of Elpitiya Superintendent of Police. Elpitiya Assistant Superintendent of Police who conducts investigations says that action would be taken to take officers and persons connected to this incident into custody.