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On 12th May three unidentified armed men who arrived at the Minuwangoda home of a prison officer attached to the New Magazine Prison in Colombo attacked and threatened him with death. Prison spokesman Chandana Ekanayake said the armed men, who arrived wearing jackets and covering their faces at the officer's Minuwangoda home, had threatened the prison officer, stating, "What kind of a person are you to stop heroin in the prison when anyone can't stop drug trafficking in the country?" They had also attacked the officer's mother, taken his sister's mobile phone and smashed it on the floor and then had made the officer kneel down and handcuff him before taking photographs and leaving the house