Daily NEWS Srilanka

A conflict arose between the alleged boy friend and comrades of internet model Piyumi Hansamali and a crowd of journalists at a hotel in Kiribathgoda last 15th.

The police had been on their tracks searching for the assailants and the 4 suspects had appeared before Kiribathgoda Police day-before-yesterday (19).
Later they were produced before courts and Kiribathgoda Police said that they would have to appear at an identification parade today. These 4 suspects who appeared before police are residents of Ragama, Kelaniya and Gonawela areas, it was confirmed. They had arrived at the restaurant concerned at about 11 in the night in the company of the mother of 1 child, Piyumi Hansamali. On that occasion they had lost their temper over a joke played by a journalist there which led into both parties engaging in a conflict.

4 of them had sustained injuries in the brawl that ensued and 1 mediaman is warded at the hospital with a broken tooth and a sunken eye. In the meantime Piyumi Hansamali's husband is presently living in the Maldives and it is mentioned in social media reports that after he had left her she has given custody of the child to be looked after by others and is roaming about with various groups of male company from time to time. The relevant video regarding the incident, from below