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Prasanna Ranaweera berates SLPP Secretary in public!

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State Minister Prasanna Ranaweera has lashed out at Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) General Secretary MP Sagara Kariyawasam yesterday (08) for removing him from the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) in Parliament.
This incident took place at the end of the meeting of the ruling party members’ group chaired by Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.
“Why was I removed from the COPA?” the state minister asked the general secretary. 
MP Kariyawasam has replied,”Ask the Prime Minister.”  
“There is no need to create issues now. We need to protect the government. Don’t create political issues. Just tell me why I was removed,” State Minister Ranaweera has said angrily using profanities.
MP Kariyawasam has informed the SLPP higher-ups that an investigation is necessary over the incident.
It was reported that the State Minister is known to use profanities and scold others in this manner. Recently, he has publicly berated President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Western Province Governor Roshan Gunathilaka during a meeting of the Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha.
Ranaweera has behaved in this way over a decision taken by the Governor in terms of using the tax collected by the Pradeshiya Sabha in a business owned by him to lay interlock bricks.
The Governor has launched an investigation asking whether laying interlock bricks is essential at this moment.

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Six killed in Nashville school shooting

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Six people have been killed in a school shooting in the US city of Nashville, Tennessee, BBC reported.

Three of the victims were pupils aged nine or under at Covenant School, a privately run Christian school.

They were named by police as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney.

The adult victims were employees and named as Cynthia Peak, 61, Katherine Koonce, 60, and Mike Hill, 61.

Covenant School has about 200 students, and teaches pupils from three years old up to around 12.

Ms Peak was a substitute teacher working at the school that day. Mr Hill was a janitor and Ms Koonce is described as the Head of School on Covenant’s website.

Police named the suspect as a 28-year-old woman, Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender.

Hale was armed with three guns, including a semi-automatic rifle, and was shot dead by police.

Nashville Police Chief John Drake said the shooter had conducted surveillance, and that maps of the building showing entry and exit points were found at a nearby home.

Police received the first call about the incident at 10:13 local time on Monday morning.

Police said the suspect got in by firing through one of the school doors, which were all locked.

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Grenade found from garden of Kabaddi Federation President

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A live grenade manufactured abroad has been found in front of the house of Sri Lanka Kabaddi Federation President – Mr. Anura Dharmaratne, which is located in the Dolahamuna area in Hettipola.

Mr. Dharmaratne had lodged a complaint yesterday (26) with the Hettipola police, saying that there’s a grenade in front of his car which was parked on his land.

He had claimed someone had planted the grenade thus after someone who had been offended after it was announced that he was going to contest for the Kabbaddi presidency again.

Subsequently, police had visited the premises and seized the grenade.
So far, no arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

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Army Sanath arrested

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Notorious criminal and drug trafficker – ‘Army Sanath’ has been arrested in the Ahangama area during an operation carried out by the Police Special Task Force in Ahangama area.

He had also been in possession of 15 grams of heroin at the time of arrest.

According to the Police STF, ‘Army Sanath’ has operated the crime and drug ring of another notorious criminal – ‘Harak Kata’.

Authorities also say that it has been revealed that ‘Army Sanath’ had been in charge of transporting weapons for a spate of recent shootings as well as cleaning these weapons following the shootings and handing them over to various persons on the instructions of ‘Harak Kata’.

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