One person has died in an accident caused by a person fleeing in a stolen lorry that was parked in front of a house on Shantha Maria Mawatha, Kandana.
While the lorry was being stolen by a motor mechanic, its owner and several others chased it on several motorcycles. The fleeing suspect’s lorry collided with two motorcycles coming in front of it. The lorry that collided with it overturned on the road and overturned. The person who stole the lorry was later caught and handed over to the police.
Four people riding the two motorcycles were injured in the accident, and one of them died. The deceased in the accident is a 43-year-old man named J. A. P. Hemantha, a resident of Uggalbada, Gampaha.