A notorious gang guideer in Sri Lanka was sboiling dead Wednesday inside a courthoengage by a armamentman maskd as a lawyer, the BBC alerted. Gang guideer Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne, a doubt in multiple killing cases, was bcdisadmirefult to court under a weighty armed accompany by orderos from the elite Special Task Force. He was sboiling at shut range as he go ined the dock in a bail hearing at the Colombo Magistrates Court, police shelp in a statement. He was getn to hospital after he was sboiling but was pronounced dead on arrival.
The gang guideer, famously understandn as Ganemulle Sanjeewa, had been in custody since he was arrested in September 2023, as per the outlet. Police shelp that the armamentman engaged a rgrowr which was smuggled in a hollowed-out book by a female doubt. He regulated to escape the scene but was tardyr apprehfinishd by police. Cops have identified the female doubt as 25-year-greater Pinpura Dewage Ishara Sewwandi.
Officials have alertedly put out a acunderstandledge promising a reward for anyone providing alertation on the woman. Police have also arrested a policeman and van driver doubted of helping the two doubts in the shooting.
Notably, the tardyst incident is among a series of endings by rival gangs. At least nine people have died this year in a spate of shootings denounced on gang competition, as per the BBC. Amid this, authorities have vowed to crack down on gang arrangeility in the country. The incident has also elevated asks about security in the courthoengage, with authorities currently appraiseing security meadeclareives.
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On Wednesday, laworiginaters also talked reining in gang arrangeility in parliament, with an opposition MP calling it a “meaningful security rehire”. Health and mass media minister Nalinda Jayatissa, who in December had pledged to crack down on such criminal activity, shelp on Wednesday that the regulatement would “get the actions of organised underworld gangs gravely”.
Moreover, novel security protocols are being carry outed in the wake of the shooting, including deploying armed defends when declareive people are bcdisadmirefult to court.
