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Sri Lankan Task Force members and police hunt supporters of newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, after an official security agent of sacked minister Arjuna Ranatunga gunshots three people in front of Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, Colombo, Sri Lanka October 28, 2018. REUTERS / Dinuka Liyanawatte
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan police on Monday arrested former oil minister Arjuna Ranatunga for a shootout that killed a person this weekend, a police spokesman said.
"The Colombo criminal division has arrested Ranatunga for the shooting incident and he will be sent back to court," police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera told Reuters.
President Maithripala Sirisena said Saturday that the government had been dissolved with the appointment of a new prime minister a day earlier.
Since then, union members linked to the new prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, have prevented ministers from the former government from entering their ministries.
Police said earlier that during an altercation on Sunday, when Ranatunga tried to enter his office, his security guard shot and killed one person and injured two.
Report by Shihar Aneez; Edited by Robert Birsel
