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.
The Colombo–Kandy main road at Pahala Kadugannawa has been closed indefinitely after a deadly rockfall in the area that left six people dead and four others injured.
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The Cyclonic Storm “Ditwah” moved further north from Trincomalee today evening leaving a trail of destruction including more than 90 deaths, over 100 missing and tens of thousands displaced, officials said.
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