According to police, in the Mattakulia area, a person arrested on suspicion of the Easter attack and released on bail was brutally hacked to death.
A 38-year-old man from the same neighbourhood was killed.
It has now been revealed that the brutal murder was committed by two people who arrived in a car this morning.
According to police, the person who was seriously injured in the attack died after being admitted to the Colombo National Hospital
