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Avissawella
headless bodies: Two identified Sukumar who worked as a trishaw driver in Armour Street for the past 14 years, was identified by his brother- in-law Ashokan. The dead man’s wife S. Wasanthi said her husband left home for work on April 26 around 6.00 am. He mainly plied in the city and returned home for his lunch, she said. However, since he left that morning, he failed to come home for two days which prompted her to lodge a complaint with the Kotahena Police. When they heard about the discovery of the five headless bodies, they began to worry that Sukumar might be one of them. The Kotahena Police informed them about the bodies and on May 1, Asokan had gone to the Avissawella Police, Ms. Wasanthi said. He
identified one of the bodies in the mortuary as that of Sukumar
from a silver ring that was removed from the body and was shown
to him by the Police, as well as an eczema that the dead man had
suffered on both legs. After his arrival at Armour Street he had called two of his friends to accompany him but they had refused. Since the two calls he had gone missing. They identified the body by a burn mark on the leg. Kegalle
Division SSP Wilfred Mahanayake confirmed that two of the bodies
were identified and that a DNA test would be conducted before their
release. SSP Mahanayake said he could not confirm reports that the other two bodies had been identified as those of Kandiah Kumalingam of Mankulam and Navaratnam Navaneetham of Thunukkai in the north, as claimed by a Tamil website. He added that there had been no breakthrough in the investigations into the murders so far. |
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