The Police Particular Process Drive’s Organized Crime Prevention Unit states that 4 people, together with the gunman who tried to shoot and kill Samagi Jana Balawegaya candidate Bandula Prasanna of the Kalutara Municipal Council, and a lady who allegedly aided him, have been arrested. Police state that the gunman was arrested whereas hiding within the Balangoda space.
Police say that the 24-year-old suspect gunman, a resident of Nagoda, Kalutara, is identical one who acted because the gunman within the incident the place an try was made to shoot and kill a jail inmate at Kalutara Nagoda Hospital on December 31, 2025, and within the incident the place the proprietor of a lodge within the police division was shot and killed on January 9, 2026.
Mr. Tennakoon Arachchige Bandula Prasanna, residing at 89/2 Nagoda, Hataramanhandiya, Kalutara, was shot and wounded by an unknown particular person on the night time of the seventh and on Might 4th of final yr, and was hospitalized on that day. The 2 suspects arrested for aiding and abetting are residents of the Kalutara space, aged 23-24, and the feminine suspect is a 23-year-old resident of the Bolossagama space. The gunman, together with the opposite suspects and the feminine suspect, have been handed over to the Kalutara District Crime Division for additional investigations.
