SLA conducts search operation in Gampaha, Kelaniya

[TamilNet, Monday, 07 April 2008, 17:10 GMT]
The cordon and search operation launched immediately after the killing of Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle in Gampaha and Kelaniya divisions in western province on Sunday morning by soldiers of the Sri Lanka and police is still continuing Monday. Every house, shop and other buildings in the area is being checked by the security forces to find out strangers, media sources said.

Meanwhile, the police said that they had recovered a national identity card issued to a 24 year-old youth residing at Vaalaichchenai in Batticaloa district from the site where the bomb explosion took placing Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle and thirteen others, media reports in Colombo said.