Police say a 21-year-old youth was reported dead in a tragic road accident that occurred around midday yesterday (25) on the A09 highway within the Chavakachcheri Police Division.

According to the Police, the accident took place near the 304 km marker when a motorcycle travelling from Chavakachcheri toward Jaffna attempted to overtake a tipper truck and collided head-on with another motorcycle coming from the opposite direction.

Both riders, a young man and a young woman, were injured and admitted to Chavakachcheri Hospital. 

The rider of one motorcycle, a 21-year-old resident of Meesalai, succumbed to his injuries after being admitted to the hospital.

The Chavakachcheri Police are conducting further investigations into the incident. (Newswire)

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The husband of the Assistant Divisional Secretary of Chavakachcheri in Jaffna, Thamilini Sadeesan, was arrested by officials from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on Saturday (19) in connection with her death.

According to the Divaina newspaper, the woman was hospitalised with burn injuries on 15 February this year. Both she and her husband had initially told hospital staff and police that her body caught fire while attempting to light a mosquito coil that night.

However, following a complaint lodged by her grieving parents and relatives with the Kopay Police, citing serious suspicions surrounding the death, the case was referred to the Criminal Investigations Department.

Subsequent police investigations revealed that her husband had allegedly set her body on fire, resulting in her death, and that at the time of her death, she was six months pregnant.

The victim’s husband, a Grama Niladhari officer, was taken into custody on suspicion on Saturday and transported to Colombo for further questioning. (Newswire)

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A 43-year-old woman has been arrested on charges of having murdered a newborn child in the Chavakachcheri area.

The Police said information had been received that a newborn child had been murdered by being thrown into a well in the Muththia Watte area last morning.

Police investigations had found pieces of cloth with blood stains buried in a land belonging to a house close to the well.

The Police had also taken into custody a woman assumed to be the newborn’s mother. 

The Chavakachcheri Police is conducting investigations into the incident. (Newswire)

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