Man hacks ex-lover and her mother to death Father in critical condition
A jilted lover on Tuesday night hacked to death his ex-girl friend and her mother, at their home in the Abeypura housing complex at Anuradhapura.
The 30-year-old man used a sword in the attack on his 23-year-old ex-girl friend and her 62-year-old mother. He had also attacked and critically injured his ex-girl friend’s 62-year-old father, the police said.
The father was rushed to the Anuradhapura Teaching hospital.
Police believe the suspect may have carried out the attack as he was resentful that the girl had started an affair with another man.
Police spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardana told The Island yesterday that the suspect had entered the victims’ house around 9.30 p.m. to commit the crime.
The deceased were identified as Sheela Karunaratne (mother) and Thakshila Darshani Mali (daughter).
The suspect had been arrested a few hours later, SP Siriwardana said.
According to the initial investigations conducted by the Anuradhapura police, the suspect’s former girlfriend who was employed as a clerk in the Anuradhapura Water Supply and Drainage Board, had started an affair with a man at her working place, while the suspect was employed overseas. On the day of the incident, she, accompanied by her new boy friend, had met him, the police said.
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