The Crimes Investigation Division of the Bambalapitiya Police have discovered several weapons hidden in an abandoned house near the Kelani Valley railway line, on the Baseline Road in Dematagoda.

Police recovered a locally manufactured 9 millimetre firearm, two live bullets and a Type-56 magazine from the location.

Police suspect that the weapons may have been hidden with the intention of carrying out a murder, possibly linked to the ongoing conflict between two organised criminal gangs operating in Wanathamulla Borella, one led by an organised crime suspect known by the alias ‘Wanathamulle Duminda’ and the other by an organised crime suspect known by the alias ‘Chathu’. 

Several previous murders have already taken place as a result of clashes between these two gangs in the Wanathamulla area.