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Now media assailants cannot hide –Freddy Gamage attackers arrested and remanded !

(Lanka-e-News - 05.June.2016, 11.55PM) The two assailants who launched  an assault with clubs on Freddy Gamage , the editor of a newspaper of Negombo on 2 nd , the club used for the attack and the motorbike on which they came were  taken into custody on the 4 th by the Negombo police even before 48 hours had elapsed .

These two assailants , Agganage Kushan Krishmal (28)  and Agganage Supun Ranga Fernando are brothers of one  family  , and they reside at 23/1 Janajayagama . Bolawalana , Negombo.

The two criminals were produced before the Negombo magistrate Karunajeewa Gamage Gunadasa and were ordered to be remanded until the  14 th of June.

The assailants told police they were provoked by a news report that appeared in the newspaper relating to them . But the victim said , nothing was reported against them , and the master mind behind this brutal assault is Lansa ,the deputy mayor of Negombo.

The police had been able to track down all the details of the telephone conversation between Dayan Lansa and Kushan. The latter is an employee of the Negombo M.C.  and when the attack was launched , he has signed the 6-2 service  security card. 

It is most significant to note , the police were able to arrest the suspects so soon because unlike during the Rajapakse regime , the suspects who launch attacks on the media personnel cannot hide easily now.

The Director of Government information issued a communiqué condemning this attack. 

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