{"id":143757,"date":"2024-08-28T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T21:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=143757"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T21:47:09","slug":"second-gunman-and-driver-arrested-in-athurugiriya-double-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/08\/28\/second-gunman-and-driver-arrested-in-athurugiriya-double-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Second gunman and driver arrested in Athurugiriya double murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Divisional Crimes Detective Bureau of Panadura Police has arrested the second gunman and the driver involved in the double murder case in Athurugiriya, known as the &#8220;Club Wasantha&#8221; murder. The suspects were apprehended in the Pinwatta area of Panadura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrested individuals, aged 29 and 32, are residents of Nagoda and Ahugalla. They were detained at a bus stop in Pinwatta after Panadura SSP received information about their location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigations have revealed that after the shooting, the suspects switched from a car to a van and traveled along the Southern Expressway to Matara before heading to Kadawata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspects will be handed over to the Athurugiriya Police for further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, police had arrested eleven suspects, including the owner of the tattoo studio where the shooting occurred on July 8, and a 21-year-old female accused of aiding the suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shooting, which took place during the opening ceremony of the tattoo and piercing studio near the Clock Tower in Athurugiriya, resulted in the deaths of 55-year-old businessman Surendra Wasantha Perera, known as &#8220;Club Wasantha,&#8221; and a 38-year-old male. Six others were hospitalized following the incident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiru News The Divisional Crimes Detective Bureau of Panadura Police has arrested the second gunman and the driver involved in the double murder case in Athurugiriya, known as the &#8220;Club Wasantha&#8221; murder. The suspects were apprehended in the Pinwatta area of Panadura. The arrested individuals, aged 29 and 32, are residents of Nagoda and Ahugalla. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}