Two suspects have been arrested over the murder of underworld member, Dinesh Sanjaya alias ‘manna manju’.

The arrest was made following a raid carried out by the Empowerment Law Unit of the Kelaniya Division. A T-56 firearm, 31 rounds and an ammunition trot was seized by the police.

The suspects from Dehiwala and Mount Lavinia are nineteen and twenty years of age. Police said that the suspects were interrogated upon detention orders. Manna Manju was murdered down St Sylvester Street in Mount Lavinia on July 21.

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