Two persons have been arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division in connection with the fire which broke out at the warehouse of the Colombo Port in May, police said.

A fire had broken out in the inbound cargo warehouse CFS 1 at JCT terminal inside the Port of Colombo on May 24 , causing over  Rs.50 million in damages.

Project Minister of Ports and Highways, Rohitha Abeygunawardena later revealed that the fire was caused by undeclared inflammable chemical cargo.

The CCD on June 06 informed court that the fire was recorded by only 4 CCTV cameras located in the terminal and raised suspicion of a possible act of sabotage.

Submitting a report to the Colombo Additional Magistrate, the CCD stated that there are a total of 32 CCTV cameras at the terminal in question, however the fire was recorded only by 4 of them.

Footage of the incident were not clear due to technical faults in these 4 cameras, police said.

Harbour Police had recorded a statement from the electric engineer who claimed that the fire erupted at 1.02 a.m. despite previous records stated that 12.36 a.m. was the time when the fire broke out.

Police further informed court that the fire was presumably an act of sabotage carried by a group or an individual.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Chandima Liyanage had then instructed the Colombo Crimes Division to conduct further inquiries into the fire and submit a report.