A suspect with a cache of weapons was arrested in Wellawaya.

October 16, 2023

Police Special Task Force personnel attached to the Buttala camp on Saturday arrested a suspect along with a cache of weapons from a house in Wellawaya on the Ella Wellawaya road belonging to a former deputy speaker, JM Ananda Kumarasiri.

Wellawaya Police said that this house belongs to former Speaker J. M. Ananda Kumarasiri.

Police said that the suspect, 63, is a resident of Okkampitiya who took care of the land and the coconut land.

The suspect was remanded until October 17 after being produced before court yesterday.

A suspect with a cache of weapons was arrested in Wellawaya.

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