No connection found between fire incident and land issue: Police

Police have said that investigations so far have not shown any connections between Thursday's fire incident at government ministries and the issue of land being wrongly awarded to persons not on the Binveriya housing scheme recipients list.

Thursday's fire originated at the Housing Ministry at around 06:30 hrs, affecting the Construction Ministry housed in the same building, and rapidly spreading to the adjacent building housing the Environment Ministry. The fire raged for four hours before authorities managed to control it, by which time the buildings had been damaged beyond use.