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Firearms, ammunition and grenades found inside Hanwella cinema hall: suspect arrested
Oct 18, 202606:55 AM
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Firearms, ammunition and grenades found inside Hanwella cinema hall: suspect arrested
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Sri Lanka Police have arrested a suspect and seized a stock of firearms, live ammunition and hand grenades during a search of a cinema in the Hanwella Road area within the Kirindiwela Police Division.

Acting on information received, officers attached to the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) searched the cinema hall on the evening of October 17.

During the operation, the officers discovered the weapons and ammunition and arrested a 38-year-old suspect who is a resident of the Millathe area, police said.

The items seized from the cinema hall included two foreign-manufactured pistols, a revolver, a foreign-manufactured repeater firearm, a foreign-manufactured 12-bore firearm, 398 live 12-bore cartridges, 278 live 16-bore cartridges, 49 live cartridges for a .32-calibre firearm, 3,083 additional live cartridges for a .32-calibre firearm, and two live hand grenades, police said.

The CCD is conducting further investigations into the incident.

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