The Kegalle Division Crimes Investigation Unit has arrested two individuals on suspicion in connection to the murders and burial of two youths who were reported missing from Mawanella.
The Police stated that the two men were arrested from the Mawanella and Welioya areas yesterday (15). The suspects aged 29 and 30 years are residents of the Nelawa and Mawanella areas.
The Police seized a motorcycle and relevant documents belonging to one victim which had been concealed at the house of the suspect who was arrested in Welioya.
The suspects will be produced before the Kegalle Magistrate’s Court today (16).
The two youths aged 28 and 26, residents of the Kiringadeniya and Keraminiya areas of Mawanella, were reported missing on the 18th and 25th of November 2022.
Following a complaint filed by the parents in December 2022, the Police uncovered that the youths had been tortured, murdered, and buried under a chicken coop in a house in Rambukkana.
The Police revealed that it is suspected that the double murder had taken place over a drug deal.
The Mawanella Police is conducting a comprehensive investigation to apprehend a key drug peddler and two of his associates over the double murder. (NewsWire)
