COLOMBO (News 1st) – Two suspects who attacked an excise officer and robbed money in Mathugama have been arrested.

Sri Lanka police says that an officer who was deployed as a strategist for a drug raid was assaulted with a sharp weapon and robbed of the money.

Heroin was also found in the possession of one of the arrested suspects.

The suspects were aged 30 and 33

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