It is suspected that the killer of the 9-year-old girl in Atalugama was a frequent visitor to her house.
The suspect has been identified by the police and the police will be able to arrest the suspect after conducting the postmortem examination of the girl today.
The suspect resided in a house near the house where the girl lives.
Police believe he was on the sidewalk when she went to the store to buy meat on the day the girl went missing.
Police have received information that a girl from the area had seen the girl while she was on the road and had asked her why she is staying on the road alone. The girl had said that she is waiting for her grandfather to come.
Police suspect that she was the victim of the crime and that she was raped. A senior police official said that the post-mortem examination would confirm this.
The IGP also directed the CID to conduct an investigation into the crime. Accordingly, a special police team of the CID went to Atalugama and commenced investigations. According to police sources, the Bandaragama Police have been able to solve the crime by uncovering the hidden details of the crime.
