Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Woman’s body recovered from well

Army deserter arrested

- KANCHANA KUMARA ARIYADASA.

Galkiriyag­ama police found the body of a 60-year-old mother of three children inside a well a hundred meters away from her house.

Police investigat­ions had revealed that her youngest daughter was having a love affair with an army deserter while the girl’s mother was strongly opposed to the affair.

The woman’s husband said they had kept their their daughter in the house of some relatives.

The Kekirawa police had arrested the girl’s fiance who was suspected of the killing.

The body was referred to the Dambulla Hospital for the postmortem examinatio­n.

Sub Inspector S.G.M. Mahinda and K.L. Chandrasen­a are conducting further investigat­ions on the instructio­ns of Galkiriyag­ama Police OIC Inspector W.C. Perera.

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