Mother and daughter brutally murdered

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The body of a brutally murdered 17 year old schoolgirl and the body of her mother, were recovered from a rubber estate at Opatha in Kahawatta on Thursday (02).

Police said the body of the girl was recovered in the morning and that of the mother late in the evening, on information from the public. The bodies were identified by relatives at the Ratnapura General Hospital.

A senior police official said the girl might have been killed elsewhere and the body dumped in the rubber estate about three days prior. The victims Kavindya Chaturangi Sellahewa (17) and her mother P. Nayana Nilmini (51) were living at Vihara Mawatha in Kahawatta. Kavindya was an Advanced Level student of Ratnapura Ferguson Girls School. Inquiries revealed that they were living alone and the girl’s father and brother were employed in Colombo.

Further inquries are being conducted into the incident. (Lasantha Niroshan and Ajithalal Shanthaudaya)

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