| One person killed and five others injured knocked down by a vehicle of the security contingent of the IGP’s wife returning from Kataragama |
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| -Police strive hard to conceal the accident |
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 (Lanka-e-News 27.Feb.2011 11.45PM) A motor cyclist was killed instantaneously and five others were injured in an accident where a defender vehicle of the security contingent providing security to the vehicle of the IGP’s wife was involved , according to our Pelmadulla correspondent.
This accident has occurred when the IGP’s wife was returning from Kataragama at about 4.30 p.m. at Pelmadulla today (27) when the defender vehicle went out of control due to the high speed at which it was travelling . This vehicle has veered off the road and crashed into a shop during which process it has knocked down a motorcyclist . The latter had died instantly . Three inmates of the shop and two of those who were in the defender had sustained serious injuries.
The dead person has been later identified as ‘Chaman’ . The owner of the shop , Gayan Sampath, his wife and a visitor to the shop , as well as two police officers traveling in the defender whose names are not known have been among those injured. |
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When the police had tried to take away the involved defender vehicle after the
accident, the residents have raised objections leading to a commotion.
It is also reported that attempts are being made to suppress this news of the accident from the media. |
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