Minister arrested over fatal shooting in Sri Lanka crisis

COLOMBO – Police arrested Sri Lanka's petroleum minister Monday, a day after a man was killed when bodyguards opened fire to rescue him from a group loyal to the country's president, officials said. 

Arjuna Ranatunga, captain of Sri Lanka's 1996 cricket World Cup winning side and an ally of ousted prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, was taken in after trade unions accused him of ordering the shooting, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. 

Sunday's shooting was the first since President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Wickremesinghe, plunging the country into a constitutional crisis. 
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