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Millionaire businessman abducted in Bambalapitiya

Two Police teams have launched separate probes into the disappearance of 29-year-old businessman, Mohammad Sulaiman.

Sulaiman went missing on the night of 21 August from near his house, at Kotalawela Avenue in Colombo 4, Police sources said.

According to the Police the businessman had attended a wedding on 21 August night and had then informed his wife from his cell phone that he was on his way home at around 11 p.m.

But when Sulaiman's wife opened the front gate to their house, she had spotted his car with its front door opened but her husband missing.

She had then alerted the Police and they recovered the businessman's cell phone, along with a parcel of food, from the floor near the front seat of the car.

According to the Police they had also spotted a few blood stains near the gate suggesting that there may have been a fight.

Police said the missing businessman was known as a big-time textile merchant in Colombo.Already teams from the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) and Bambalapitiya Police have been deployed to carry out two separate probes into the disappearance.