Sri Lanka, March 6 -- Police investigations have revealed that the recent shooting and killing of Anura Vidanagamage, alias "Kajja", and his two children in Middeniya was part of a revenge killing linked to the underworld.

Police confirmed that the murder was orchestrated as revenge for stealing a parcel of Cannabis belonging to a notorious drug trafficker infamously known as "Backhoe Saman".

According to police, the gunman-who was arrested along with nine others-confessed that he carried out the execution on a contract from "Backhoe Saman" due to his own mounting personal debt.

On February 18, "Kajja" was shot dead by an unidentified gunman, while his two children, who sustained critical injuries in the attack, succumbed later.

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