(Lanka-e-News -29.April.2015, 11.30PM) President Maithripala Sirisena is a politician who escaped 6 assassination attempts on him . On 9 th October 2008 , in Boralesgamuwa , his car was targeted for attack by a suicide bomber , stories did the rounds at that time the Rajapakse regime was involved. Now , as recently as 25 th of this month , when Maithri was at Hambantota , the fortress of the Rajapakses , an army corporal with a weapon allegedly attached to the security detail of Namal Rajapakse threateningly moved into close quarters of Maithri. Though he was reckoned as a suspect he has still not been arrested. Lanka e news learns that the CID had only recorded a statement of his , even without dispossessing him of the weapon , and released him.
