Relatives of victims

The bodies of Dinesh Tharanga Fernando and Dhanushaka Udaya Aponsu were found by the sea shore of Angulana on Thursday morning.

The youths were arrested after a complaint made by a woman in the same locality.

Police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekara said that initial investigations have revealed that the Police officers taken in to custody are involved in the killing.

“All the nineteen police officers who served at this station have been transferred with immediate effect” said the Police spokesman.

Spokesman Gunasekara confirmed that at the inquest it emerged that both victims had gunshot injuries.

Brutally Assaulted

The parents of the victims said that they received information from a neighbour that the youth were being brutally assaulted at the police station during the early hours of Thursday,

“When we went to the police station we found that all the police officers were heavily drunk” said Saman Udayakantha Aponsu, the farther of one of the victims,

Villagers said that the Officer in charge of the Angulana Police station was in the habit of arresting young boys and later releasing them upon taking bribes from their parents.

“We went to the police station with the intention of bribing the police officers but it was too late” said Swarnalatha Aponsu the mother of the deceased Tharanga Fernando.

The angry residents of Angulana attacked the police station in protest and pelted stones and smashed the front glass pains of the police station.
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