COLOMBO, SRI LANKA—The body of a newspaper editor killed seven years ago was exhumed Tuesday for a fresh investigation as Sri Lanka’s government looks anew at multiple unsolved killings of journalists under a previous government. Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper, was killed while driving to work in January 2009. The officer who carried out the autopsy said the death occurred due to gunshot wounds, while the surgeon who operated on the editor before he died said the wounds were not from bullets. Ranagala said police also wanted to identify the type of weapon used to kill Wickrematunga. A number of journalists were killed, reported as missing after being abducted by government paramilitaries, or beaten up under former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s administration.

Source: thestar September 27, 2016 13:18 UTC