A person has been hospitalised after being injured in a shooting incident at Jumma Masjid Junction in Maligawatte.
Police said that the shooting was carried out by two gunmen on a motorcycle.
The incident comes just days after a similar shooting claimed the life of a woman in the same area.
A shooting incident had occurred this evening (26) at the Jumma Junction in Maligawatte, Colombo.
A 31 year woman from Maligawatte area had been killed in the shooting at the Jumma Junction in Maligawatte on Sunday (August 26).
Two unidentified persons who arrived in a motorcycle had shot the said woman who was walking on the road. She had succumbed to the injuries while on the way to the hospital.
