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Detention order to be sought for suspect arrested with firearms, ammunition and grenades
Oct 18, 202611:44 AM
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Detention order to be sought for suspect arrested with firearms, ammunition and grenades
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Sri Lanka Police have stated that a detention order will be sought to question the suspect arrested with firearms, live ammunition and hand grenades during a search of a cinema hall in the Kirindiwela Police Division.

Acting on information received, officers attached to the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) searched the cinema hall in the Hanwella Road area on the evening of October 17.

During the operation, police seized a stock of weapons and ammunition and arrested a 38-year-old suspect residing in the Millathe area.

The items seized from the cinema hall included two foreign-manufactured pistols, a revolver, a foreign-manufactured repeater firearm, a foreign-manufactured 12-bore firearm, 398 live 12-bore cartridges, 278 live 16-bore cartridges, 49 live cartridges for a .32-calibre firearm, 3,083 additional live cartridges for a .32-calibre firearm, and two live hand grenades, police said.

The Police Media Division stated that a detention order would be sought to facilitate further questioning of the suspect as investigations continue.

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