On November 29, Sri Lanka Police confirmed that the suspect arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks in 2019, was hacked to death in Mattakkuliya in Colombo on November 28, reports Ada Derana. Police Media Spokesman, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Nihal Thalduwa revealed that the deceased was arrested in 2019 along with four other suspects in Ja-Ela over the Easter Sunday attacks. They had two detonators, two sets of uniforms similar to those used in the Army, two sticks of gelignite and nearly two kilograms of ammonia in their possession at the time of the arrest, Thalduwa added. Three of the five suspects were later released on the grounds that a successful case could not be built against them. Accordingly, one of the three suspects who were released, identified as a 38-year-old resident of Mattakkuliya, had been murdered in the area last morning. The deceased had been returning home from another court case in which he was accused of money laundering, when the assailants followed his car and caused an accident, after which they got out of the vehicle and hacked the victim, SSP, Thalduwa said.