A Sri Lankan soldier checks the identification of a driver at a roadblock in Colombo, in 2009
Colombo (AFP) - Sri Lanka's police on Sunday re-introduced war-time road blocks and random checks on vehicles following a surge in gang-related shootings in the capital, a spokesman said.
More than 100 police stations in Colombo and its suburbs have been asked to erect snap blocks, a common practice during the island's separatist war that ended nearly seven years ago, police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.
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