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A contract job, says killer
The man who killed Dhammika Amarasinghe, a notorious underworld figure and key suspect in a headline-hitting case, has claimed that it was a contract job, according to police.

The assassin, identified as Army deserter Chaminda Udaya Kumara was interrogated by the Colombo Crimes Division who produced him before the Colombo Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday. He was remanded till January 23. The suspect was brought under heavy police and prison guard protection to the Chief Magistrate's court in Hulftsdorp. He was later transferred to the Welikada remand prisons.

During the interrogation which went late into the night, the suspect had claimed that he was given Rs. 300,000 to kill Dhammika Amarasinghe. Soon after the killing, the suspect had shouted, saying he killed Dhammika to avenge the murder of former Presidential Security Division constable and notorious underworld figure Beddagana Sanjeewa.

Police sources said that the suspect had dropped some of the names and investigators were checking their connections with the suspect. However, on the confession of the suspect, no arrests have been made till last evening. Investigators had collected photo albums from the suspect’s house in Grand Pass to obtain further details about his associates.

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