{"id":49764,"date":"2016-11-21T02:22:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49764"},"modified":"2016-11-21T02:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T06:49:31","slug":"man-killed-and-another-critically-injured-as-gunman-fires-t-56-on-people-at-a-bus-stand-near-the-bebilagolla-mosque-in-ankumburakandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49764","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed and Another Critically Injured as Gunman Fires T-56 on People at a Bus stand near the Bebilagolla Mosque in Ankumbura,Kandy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Asela Kuruluwansa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man died and another was injured when unidentified gunmen in a car opened fire near the Bebilagolla Mosque in Ankumbura, Kandy. The incident occurred around 8.30 a.m. yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The duo were shot at a nearby bus stand. The injured man admitted to the Kandy Hospital Intensive Care Unit is said to be in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, several people had arrived in the car and one of them who got out had opened fire with a T-56 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen had fled after the attack. Police arrested two suspects within two hours with the help of villagers.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police arrested one suspect who was fleeing the scene after exiting from the vehicle a little while later. Police had given chase to the fleeing vehicle which had collided with a backhoe truck at a byroad near Antharagama. Police arrested another suspect who was in the car. The vehicle driver had escaped.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was Mohammed Rafeek, 23, and the 22-year-old who was injured worked at a mobile phone shop in Kandy town. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the vehicle used by the gunmen belonged to a person in Wattala. The suspects are said to be residents of Mahaiyyawa and Kaduwela. Police investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily News<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton49764\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D49764&amp;text=Man%20Killed%20and%20Another%20Critically%20Injured%20as%20Gunman%20Fires%20T-56%20on%20People%20at%20a%20Bus%20stand%20near%20the%20Bebilagolla...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Asela Kuruluwansa A man died and another was injured when unidentified gunmen in a car opened fire near the Bebilagolla Mosque in Ankumbura, Kandy. The incident occurred around 8.30 a.m. yesterday. The duo were shot at a nearby bus stand. The injured man admitted to the Kandy Hospital Intensive Care Unit is said to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Man Killed and Another Critically Injured as Gunman Fires T-56 on People at a Bus stand near the Bebilagolla Mosque in Ankumbura,Kandy.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49765,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49764\/revisions\/49765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}