The Police Special Task Force (STF) opened fire on a cab that had sped past a checkpoint in Point Pedro, Jaffna injuring two people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police Spokesman, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Ajith Rohana said the checkpoint had been set up to protect a natural sand mound in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said a cab that was travelling from the direction of the sand mound had been ordered to stop by STF officials at the checkpoint this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It had however, continued to travel without heeding the signal and had crashed onto the checkpoint barriers, after which it had attempted to runover a group of STF officers standing ahead of the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DIG Ajith Rohana said the move had prompted the STF officers to open fire at the cab and the vehicle had continued to speed off despite a flat tyre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said the Police had later received information that two individuals had been admitted to the Point Pedro hospital with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Police Spokesman said it is suspected that the two individuals, aged 23 and 26, may be the suspects who had travelled in the cab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Point Pedro Police has commenced investigations into the incident and has launched a search operation for the cab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DIG Ajith Rohana said statements have also been recorded from the STF officers who were at the checkpoint in Point Pedro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Police Special Task Force (STF) opened fire on a cab that had sped…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10719,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10717\/revisions\/10719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}