A group of Army soldiers have come to the rescue of a Grease Devil who was being attacked by villagers in Pubudupura in Anuradhapura when he was caught trying to abuse a woman in the village.

A man clad in black had knocked on the door of the residence in Pubudupura 3rd stage where the woman was living around 8.30 p.m. The house owner and villagers have assaulted him and tied the person to a tree.

The group of Army personnel who had arrived at the spot a few minutes later in a white van without a number plate had asked that the person be handed over to either the Army or the police as he was an Army soldier.