Man kills his two children in apparent double murder-suicide
February 6, 2023 08:00 am
A man has reportedly hacked to death his two children before committing suicide at Polambeygoda in Aranayaka.
Ada Derana reporter said that the individual had murdered his children aged 2 and 9 years before taking his own life in an apparent double murder-suicide.
According to reports, the father (33) had committed suicide by hanging himself and that the bodies of the children were found nearby.
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