Schoolgirl slain

A schoolgirl, 16, was murdered yesterday in Kandanegedara area of the Pannala Police area in Kurunegala.

The slain schoolgirl was identified as H. W. Romeshika Chathurani Perera who was reading for the G.C.E. (O.L.) Examination this year. The youth who committed the murder was found to have committed suicide by stabbing himself after the girl was slain.

The youth was 26 years and a resident of the Chilaw area. He had come to meet the girl to her house with a bunch of flowers and a knife yesterday. They have had a heated argument and subsequently, the youth had slain the girl by cutting her throat with the knife.

Police are investigating.