Hungama Police are investigating the double murder of a couple who were hacked to death inside a house in Ranna, Hungama in the early hours of today (7).
Police Media Unit said the victims were both aged 28 years and were residents of Ranna and Tissamaharama.
The male victim had been staying at a friend's house with the female victim, with whom he was carrying on an affair. They had been attacked by at least five masked assailants who had burst into the house.
A motive for the murders is yet to be established and the bodies are currently lying at the scene of the crime under police guard pending a magisterial inquiry. Hungama Police are investigating.
Mannar residents vowed to continue their protest against proposed wind power projects on the main island despite they came under attack on Friday night (26) when they tried to stop transportation of equipments following Presidential directive to go ahead with the project.
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