Sacked Sri Lanka Minister Arjuna Ranatunga Arrested Over Shooting: Police

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
minister Arjuna Ranatunga over a shooting that killed one person on the weekend, police spokesman said."Colombo Crime division arrested
Ranatunga over the shooting incident and he will be produced to the court shortly," police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera told Reuters.President
Maithripala Sirisena on Saturday declared that the cabinet had been dissolved with the appointment of a new prime minister a day
earlier.Since then, members of trade unions linked to the new prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, have blocked ministers from the old cabinet
from entering their ministries.Police said earlier that in an altercation on Sunday, when Ranatunga tried to enter his office, his security
guard shot and killed one person and wounded two.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and
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