The Bambalapitiya  Police have launched investigations after an Airman shot himself with a  firearm at Fonseka Place in ​ Bambalapitiya.  Police said the deceased is a 38-year-old, Sergeant of the Sri Lanka Air Force and a resident of Abhayapura, Trincomalee.  

It has been revealed that the deceased had shot himself by  using his duty firearm near a deserted house in Fonseka Place  while he was on duty with several other Air Force personnel.  A magisterial inquest has been conducted, and the body has been deposited at the National Hospital mortuary in Colombo.