The Maradana Police said that a six year-old-girl died in a shooting that took place near the Maligakanda Magistrate’s Court.
The father of the girl who was injured in the shooting has been hospitalised.
She had succumbed to injuries at the National hospital. She was injured after while she was traveling in a trishaw with her mother and father.
The deceased is six-year-old Ashirvadini Abhimani, a resident of Kotahena Wasala Road.
Police say that the dead girl’s father was the target of the shooters.
He is a suspect in the murder of a person, hacked to death with sharp weapons in November last year in the Kotahena area. Police say that his wife and girl were travelling with him in a three-wheeler at the time of the shooting.
The man, who is the father of the deceased child, was on his way back home after attending a legal matter at the Maligakanda Court.
The shooting was done by two unknown persons who came on a motorcycle.
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