Schoolgirl’s body found behind hotel

May 7, 2023 at 1:18 PM


A naked body of a schoolgirl has been discovered near a railway track behind a five-story hotel in Main Street Kalutara, the police said.

Kalutara South Police further said that the body was discovered last night (06). The deceased has been identified as a 16-year-old resident of Nagoda area in Kalutara.

Preliminary investigations have revealed that the girl in question had come to the hotel with another young couple and a young man last afternoon and rented two rooms on the third floor of the hotel.

The other couple and young man who came with the deceased girl had left the place before the body of the deceased girl was recovered.

Police have arrested the other couple who had stayed in the hotel and investigations have commenced to arrest the young man who stayed with the girl. 

Kalutara South Police are conducting further investigations to ascertain if this is a case of homicide. (NewsWire)