Srilanka, March 14 -- A garage owner was arrested by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) along with a stock of foreign-made firearms and live ammunition hidden in a two-story house in the Welivita area of Kaduwela. The police stated that the raid was conducted based on a search warrant obtained from the Kaduwela Magistrate's Court following a tip-off received by the CCD intelligence unit.

Officers discovered the weaponry sophisticatedly concealed in an upstairs room of the suspect's residence. The seized items include a foreign-made repeater firearm, a 12-bore double-barrel shotgun, 15 rounds of 12-bore live ammunition, 50 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition, and two 0.22 caliber rifle bullets.

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