Two unidentified men on a motorcycle opened fire at a three-wheeler driver in the Rawathawatta area of Moratuwa on Wednesday and fled the scene, Hiru News reported, citing police.
No injuries were reported. Police said further investigations are under way.
What is not known
Hiru gives no time for the incident beyond “a short while ago” at the time of filing, and does not identify the driver, report the number of shots, describe the weapon, or give any account of a motive. No arrests are reported. Police have not said whether the driver was the intended target or whether the shooting is being treated as connected to any wider dispute.
Context
Shootings by pairs of men on motorcycles have been a recurring pattern in Western Province crime reporting this month, including a fatal shooting in Boralesgamuwa and one in Thanamalwila reported the same day as this incident. Police have not linked the Moratuwa case to any of them, and nothing in the report suggests a connection.
The same week has seen a series of arrests of organised crime figures, including Konda Ranji, deported from Dubai and associates of Palani Shiran detained in Pettah. Again, no link has been drawn by police or by Hiru.
Sourcing note
This is a single-source brief. Neither the Daily Mirror nor NewsFirst had filed on the incident, and Ada Derana was returning a domain-wide CloudFront 403 while this was written, so no second account was available to check the details against. The report should be treated as preliminary.
