Sri Lankan police have arrested two people in connection with the assassination of the island's foreign minister, police sources said late on Friday according to Reuters. Lakshman Kadirgamar died late on Friday after being shot near his Colombo home, in an attack the police said they suspected was the work of Tamil Tiger rebels. "We took into custody two people from the nearby area," one police source said on condition of anonymity. There were no details of their identities.