{"id":62102,"date":"2012-11-27T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62102"},"modified":"2012-11-27T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:00:11","slug":"ganjaillegal-firearms-and-ammunition-discovered-inside-opposition-lawmakers-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ganjaillegal-firearms-and-ammunition-discovered-inside-opposition-lawmakers-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganja,Illegal Firearms And Ammunition Discovered Inside Opposition Lawmaker&#8217;s Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Ganja, illegal firearms and ammunition were discovered inside the vehicle in which UNP parliamentarian Dilip Wedaarachchi was traveling, police said today.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_62103\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ganjaillegal-firearms-and-ammunition-discovered-inside-opposition-lawmakers-vehicle\/dilipwedaarachchi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62103\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62103\" title=\"DilipWedaarachchi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DilipWedaarachchi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dilip Wedaarachchi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Police Spokesman SSP Prasantha Jayakodi said the driver of the jeep was taken into the police custody.\u00a0Police found one revolver, a 12-bore weapon, six of 3.8 type live bullets, twelve bullets for 12-bore weapons and 36 grammes of Ganja in the jeep, the spokesman said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A pedestrian was killed while the Hambantota District MP and two others were injured and hospitalized after their jeep collided head-on with a SLTB bus this morning. The accident had occurred at around 3.25am near the 207km Post in Wadiyagala, Hungama.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The SLTB bus was traveling towards Colombo from Kataragama while the MP\u2019s jeep was en route to Tangalle from Hungama.\u00a0A 39-year-old pedestrian, who was waiting for a bus, was injured from the collision and succumbed to injuries after being admitted to the Tangalle Hospital. 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