COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police detained two ruling party MPs on Wednesday for allegedly encouraging mob violence that engulfed the country last week and killed nine people, officials said.
Criminal investigators questioned the members of parliament, both from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s party, on Tuesday evening and detained them overnight, a police officer said on condition of anonymity.
“The two MPs were arrested because there is direct proof against them,” the official stated.
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