Colombo - A journalist who reported on defence matters and worked as a government press advisor was shot dead by unidentified killers outside Sri Lanka's capital, police said Sunday.
The bullet-riddled body of Lakmal Sampath was found by police on Sunday morning at Dehiwala, eight kilometres south of Colombo, police said.
He was a former defence correspondent for a Sinhala-language newspaper before becoming press advisor for a government minister.
Police said that there was no known motive, but they were investigating whether he had previous threats due to his work as a journalist or as a government official.
