Two drunken men who scaled the wall of ‘Temple Trees’, the Prime Minister’s official residence in Colombo, and were arrested have cited a Google Maps error for their presence within the highly fortified premises.
The two suspects confessed that they were returning to their rented residence on Muhandiram Road in Colombo, after having a drink at a bar in Kollupitiya, and they were following the route shown by Google Maps and it had ended near a big wall and thinking their residence was on the other side, had scaled the wall and jumped into the premises.
The officers of the Prime Minister’s Security Division had arrested the two suspects and had handed them over to the Kollupitiya Police.
“Both are 28 years old. One is working as a software engineer and the other as a merchant seaman,” a Police officer said.
The two suspects have been released on Police bail and will be presented to the Courts on March 14.
Bimal Jayasinghe
