CID records statements from relatives of New Zealand attacker

The Sri Lanka Police in a statement has announced that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has commenced recording statements from close relatives of the Sri Lankan national who was involved in the New Zealand terror attack

According to the preliminary information the attacker had left the country in 2011 as a student, the police said.

Attacker injured six people in a New Zealand supermarket knife attack yesterday, before being shot dead by police officers who had him under round-the-clock surveillance, New Zealand media reported.