STF staged well planned assassination at the Welikada prison compound

[ Monday, 19 November 2012, 09:01.39 AM GMT +05:30 ]

Several prisoners were forcibly shot dead during the recent Welikada prison riots, prison sources said.

Since end of the riots all the prisoners were detained in their respective cells. Group of Special Task Force members arrive with the name list ordered the prisoners to line up and later on shoot out 11 of them. According to the prison officials stated later on they found 11 dead bodies in the prison compound. At present officials have tapping the phone calls of prison officials. Due to this these prison officials were fear to provide information’s towards media.