COLOMBO: Heavily armed gunmen broke up a rally of the main Marxist party in Sri Lanka, killing two people and wounding several others, police and a party official said Saturday.
Gunmen on motorcycles stormed a public meeting organised by the JVP, or People's Liberation Front, at the village of Katuwana Friday and escaped after killing a woman and a 17-year-old boy and wounding many others, police said.
"Investigations are underway, but no arrests have been made yet," a local police official in the nearby Hambantota town said when contacted by telephone. "We have deployed more personnel in the area after the shooting," he added.