Woman’s body recovered from well
Army deserter arrested
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.