UPDATE: 8-year-old molested, killed in Pinnaduwa
September 18, 2014 04:28 pm
UPDATE: The key suspect in Pinnaduwa eight-year-old child’s
murder case drowned in Madola tributary while trying to flee from police
custody, a short while ago, sources from the police said.
The police have found a dead body of an eight-year-old child in a
tea estate in Madola, Pinnaduwa area, early hours of this morning.
The police believe that the child was molested or raped before her
death. The body was found at the tea estate in Katupolwatta, a few
meters close to her house, by a policemen team attached the Akmeemana
police.
“We suspect that the child was killed by strangulation. Her body
has been sent to the Akmeemana Base hospital for the post-mortem,” a
police officer said.
The police, based on the preliminary level investigations, have
apprehended two suspects aged 24 and 27-years in connect to the
incident.
“The suspects have been identified as two individuals from the same
area. A police dog helps in the arrest of the suspects. The assailants
will be produced in the Galle Magistrate’s Court,” the officer added.
The child is said to have raped and killed by one of a suspect
after abducting her from her house in Madola area in Pinnaduwa, while
the parents were away. The search operation was initiated after the
parents have lodged a complaint with the police about their missing
child, last night.