Update: 10-year-old hacked to death

25 September 2015 08:51 am

A 10-year-old schoolboy living at Kapurugoda in Panagoda is reported to have been hacked to death today and his body was recovered from an abandoned house in the area.

Police said the victim Kavindu Devinda Kapuruge was a grade-five student at Panagoda Sri Parakrama Vidyalaya. They said the body was found in a pool of blood in the abandoned house, which had been occupied by a quarry worker from another area.

His meals had been supplied by the child’s parents during his stay in the area. However, the man had gone missing after the incident and the police suspect him for the killing. A senior police official said the motive for the killing had not been established.

The child’s father said he found the child missing from home today morning and searched for him with several others only to find his mutilated body in the abandoned house. Athurugiriya police are conducting investigations. (Irangi Edirisinghe and Buddika Kumarasisri)