Information About Incident 59563-118956-300891 in Kegalle Sri Lanka

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Colombo Page reported that an unidentified mob stormed the house of a person, who had been allegedly hired by the LTTE to assassinate Deputy Minster of Finance Ranjith Siyambalpitiya, at Adurupana in the Kegalle district and set it ablaze after removing the residents, police sources said, adding, the suspected hired assassin was an army deserter.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Adurupana Kegalle
• Matched District: Kegalle
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: an unidentified mob
• Subject: the house of a person

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Colombo Page reported that an unidentified mob stormed the house of a person, who had been allegedly hired by the LTTE to assassinate Deputy Minster of Finance Ranjith Siyambalpitiya, at Adurupana in the Kegalle district and set it ablaze after removing the residents, police sources said, adding, the suspected hired assassin was an army deserter. Police recently arrested the suspect along with four others on the suspicion of undertaking a contract worth of two million rupees from the outfit to assassinate Minister Siyambalapitiya.

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.

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