Daily NEWS Srilanka

By now a wave of heartrending murders are being reported in the country. Yet another 17th woman-murder from Kahawatta area which rocked the country sometime ago has to be reported.

A 48 year old woman from Opatha area in Kotakethana was murdered after being hacked to death by a sharp instrument, towards evening yesterday. This woman who is the mother of two children had gone to pluck tea leaves with two other women in the morning hours and the other women had handed over the tender tea leaves; but the woman who was subjected to murder had not returned. The crowd who went in search of her were to then able to find the dead body of the woman brutally murdered. 

While an arm was found cut in a manner that it was completely severed from the body, there had been sharp cut marks too found all over her body. It was a woman named Nadan Paappu living at No. 2 Upper Division Opatha, Kotakethana who had died in this manner. The Kahawatta Police say that several blood stains were found on the road she had travelled along. The police also say that the body was found within two hours after the killing. 

It is 2 kilometres in distance from Kahawatta, Kotakethana where a number of murders took place sometime back to where this estate is. No suspect has been identified so far in connection with the murder and the Magisterial Inquiry was held in the evening. In the year 2014 a 31 year old mother of two called Jeyapalan Thilakarani was murdered within this very estate and the suspects in that case have been taken into custody and sent to jail. The police are conducting inquiries into this last murder too.