Speaking to 'Sri Lanka Mirror', Kolonnawa UNP organiser and provincial Councillor S.M. Marikkar said that the gunmen had arrived in a Defender and a van around 11.30 last night and had shot using two firearms. The van had stickers with the image of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, he added.

Although 04 policemen and 02 Army soldiers were deployed at the scene for security, they had looked on while the attack took place.

No arrests have been made yet with regard to the incident.

Several days earlier, several persons pasting campaigning posters of Maithripala Sirisena too, were assaulted.