NewsThree men on a motorbike robbed Rs 1.2 million from a businessman at Denipitiya, Weligama. The 49-year-old businessman is a wholesale vegetable trader and had been walking home on foot after parking his lorry at the Denipitiya market when he was ambushed by the alleged robbers. Claiming to be from the STF, the men had stated they had received information that the businessman was transporting drugs and that they needed to search him. Suspicious of the so-called STF personnel, the businessman had insisted that the men go to the police station with him, whereupon they had grabbed the bag containing the Rs.1.2 million the businessman had with him and fled. Weligama Police are investigating.

Source: Sunday Times August 22, 2018 06:45 UTC