It has been revealed that the 22-year-old girl who has been missing since last 7th, who worked in a pharmacy in Gelioya, was murdered and buried.
A girl named Fathima Munaura who was a resident of the Gampola Elpitiya area, has been killed like this.
Since the day she disappeared, the police and the villagers had launched a search for her for several days.
She disappeared on this day while she was leaving home for her workplace.
While the Gampola police are working hard with the villagers to find her, a police officer has received information through an international phone call that a person is suspected in the girl’s disappearance. Accordingly, the police took a 24-year-old youth into their custody and during long interrogation, he said he had killed her.
A senior police officer said that the young man desired her. It is said
that one day he grabbed her hand, and when she did not respond well, he kidnapped her, strangled her and then buried her. He has also shown the place where her body was buried, and the police have taken the necessary steps to recover the dead body.
