Two automatic firearms used for Gandara double homicide, apprehended

Five suspects, including the shooter, have been arrested in connection with the double homicide that has been committed in front of the gate of the Devinuwara Dewalaya in Gandara on the night of 21. 03. 2025.

Based on information disclosed by a suspect detained under a detention order during interrogation by officers of the Homicides & Organised Crime Investigation Division, investigation officers were able to find a T-56 firearm and its magazine, suspected to have been used in the shooting, hidden in a house on Yatiyana Road, Kekanadura, on the morning of 12. 04. 2025 and also based on the information revealed, another T-56 type firearm, suspected to have been used in the crime, along with a magazine containing five live bullets, was found hidden in a house in the Gandara Delgalla area belonging to a suspect in custody on the evening of 12. 04. 2025, and was taken into police custody.

Further investigations are underway to disclose information regarding any other crimes committed using these deadly firearms.