Mother of two children stabbed to death by husband

By Hemalatha D.Hewage and Priyanka Rupasinghe   

A woman was stabbed to death by her husband at Kekillapitiya junction in the Pannala police area last morning. The 39 year old Gammna Arachchilage Anoma Kumari of Wiridiyawatta in Thalammehera was a mother of two children one of them was sitting for the grade five scholarship examination on Sunday(11).   

Investigations revealed that she had separated from her husband who had been paying maintenance for one of the children. However he had often visited her and harassed her while under the influence of liquor. The Police had investigated her complaint in this regard and had filed action against her husband in the Kuliyapitiya 
Magistrate Court.   

Police said the woman who worked as a janitor in the Pannala branch of the People’s Bank was on her way to work when she had been waylaid and stabbed to death by her husband.   

A Police team under OIC Pannala Police IP Upul Ariyaratne is conducting further investigations on the instructions of SSP Mahinda Dissanayake to arrest the 
absconding suspect.