Sri Lanka police arrest Arjuna Ranatunga over shooting incident

[Gabbar Singh]

Sri Lanka’s Petroleum Minister and former cricketer Arjuna Ranatunga was arrested on Monday for the violent incident amid the ongoing political crisis in the country that killed one person, police said.

Mr. Ranatunga was the captain of Sri Lanka’s 1996 cricket World Cup winning side.

The political crises in Sri Lanka took an ugly turn on Sunday when bodyguards of the 54-year-old Mr. Ranatunga, a loyalist of former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, fired live rounds at the supporters of the new Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa, leaving one person dead.

Two persons were hospitalised and a security personnel was arrested at the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) premises in Dematagoda following a tense situation.

The incident took place when the cricketer-turned-politician visited the CPC office, with several petroleum corporation workers objecting to his presence there.

When they were not allowed to move out, Mr. Ranatunga’s security personnel opened fire which injured three persons, police said. Unconfirmed reports said two of Mr. Ranatunga’s security personnel have been arrested

https://www.thehindu.com/news/inter...ing-amid-political-crisis/article25361359.ece

 

[KingKhanWC]

Jayasuriya accused of fixing and now this.

Hope the turmoil in Lankan politics soon ends.

 

[gazza619]

Unbelievable. There is so much dirty politics in our part of the world. I often wonder why do people risk their lives by joining politics

 

[Chrish]

Ranatunga seems like a pretty detestable human being.. Remember reading years ago in the newspaper how he beat up some high school kids with bat over something trivial. Those kids had to be admitted to hospital iirc