Three policemen killed in Easter blasts posthumously promoted

Colombo: Three policemen, who were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up causing the concrete floor of a two-storey building to crash on them in the Sri Lankan capital, have been posthumously promoted.

One Sub Inspector and two constables were killed during a raid at a house in Colombo north suburb of Orugodawatta at Dematagoda on Sunday. When they entered the house, a suicide bomber blew himself, killing all of them.

"They have been posthumously promoted," Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said. The Sub-Police Inspector was posthumously promoted

as an Inspector while the two constables have been promoted to the ranks of Sergeants,

he said.