COLOMBO, Oct 29, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Police arrested Sri Lanka’s petroleum
minister Monday, a day after a man was killed when bodyguards opened fire to
rescue him from a group loyal to the country’s president, officials said.
Arjuna Ranatunga, captain of Sri Lanka’s 1996 cricket World Cup winning
side and an ally of ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, was taken in
after trade unions accused him of ordering the shooting, police spokesman
Ruwan Gunasekera said.
Sunday’s shooting was the first since President Maithripala Sirisena sacked
Wickremesinghe, plunging the country into a constitutional crisis.