A Sri Lankan Army Officer and 4 soldiers have been arrested for stealing gold, desperately hidden in the ground by fleeing civilians during the last stages of the armed conflict in 2009.
The soldiers and the Lieutenant Colonel were digging through the ground and scavaging for the jewellery, before attempting to flee the area in a cab, according to reports.
See our earlier post: Floods wash up bodies from the killing fields (08 February 2013)
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