COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan opposition politician was shot dead in his office on Wednesday, police said, the latest in a wave of assassinations and the first to target a political figure.Lasantha Wickramasekara, 38, the council chairman of the coastal city of Weligama, was meeting with constituents when a gunman burst in and fired multiple times with a revolver.No one else was wounded, and the gunman fled the scene.“An investigation is underway to track down the killer,” police said in a…
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