Sri Lanka, Feb. 20 -- The nine-year-old boy who was hospitalized after being shot in the Galpotthaya area in Middeniya last night (18) has died while receiving treatment at the Galle National Hospital today.

The shooting claimed the lives of Aruna Vidanagamage alias 'Kajja,' a resident of Meegasara in Weeraketiya, and his eight-year-old daughter.

Vidanagamage had gone to a shop in the Galpotthaya area on the Weeraketiya-Middeniya road with his three children to get dinner. He left his eldest child at the shop while taking his six-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son to another shop.

On their return, two men on a motorcycle opened fire near the Galpotthaya 9 post using a T56 firearm before fleeing the scene. Vidanagamage, 39, died on...