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Message: <blockquote data-quote="netlife007" data-source="post: 14232661" data-attributes="member: 79514"><a href="http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=69970" target="_blank">http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=69970</a>Ministerial aide among five arrested over PS member killing January 8, 2013, 8:57 pm   By Dasun Edirisinghe and Norman Palihawadane       The  CID team probing last Saturday night’s killing, of a  Kelaniya  Pradeshiya Sabha member, arrested five suspects, including the alleged   assassin, yesterday.  According to sources, among the  suspects arrested was a  coordinating secretary to a political  heavyweight in the Gampaha district.  Police Spokesman SSP  Prishantha Jayakody told ‘The Island’  that the chief suspect was  arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport  when he was about to  leave the country.  The investigators have also recovered  the 9 mm pistol which was  used in the killing. They also recovered two  bullets and the motor cycle used by  the killer and his accomplice.  According to SSP Jayakody, they had also recovered a T-81  assault rifle along with 46 bullet.   The Island made several attempts to contact Minister Mervyn  Silva, but he was not available.  Kelaniya  PS member Hasitha Madawala was shot dead, outside his  residence at  Waragoda, on Saturday night by an unidentified gunman, who arrived  on a  motor cycle.  He succumbed to his injuries before admission to the National  Hospital.  The  Scene of Crime Officers (SOCO), who visited the scene soon  after the  killing, recovered five empty bullet casings fired from a 9mm pistol.   It had been established that three of the bullets had hit Madawala.</blockquote>

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