Youth rejected by girlfriend attempts suicide

A young man, from Kurundankulama in Anuradhapura, has been admitted to the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital by area people when he attempted to commit suicide by pouring petrol over his body and igniting on Monday (31) afternoon, ‘Lakbima’ reported.

The 23-year-old young man, a resident of Nisala Avenue, Matale Junction, Anuradhapura, had tried to start a love affair with a young woman from the same area and failing which he had attempted to commit suicide. 

He had gone with a friend on a motorbike to a petrol station where he bought one-and-half-a-litre petrol and leaving his friend there he had come to Kurundankulama junction.

As he watched the young woman nearing the junction after attending a funeral house, he had poured gasoline over his body in front of her and lighted.

The area people, who hurried to the victim at once, had put out the fire by taking away the clothes and brought him to the hospital where he is being treated for burns on his face, chest and hair.

Three-wheeler driver remanded for raping a cleaning woman

A 43-year-old three-wheeler driver, who has been held on suspicion for raping a 58-year-old woman cleaning the bathrooms at the private bus stand in Kadawatha, has been ordered to be remanded by Mahara Chief Magistrate Miss Dharshika Wimalasiri, ‘Lankadeepa’ reported.

The suspect, who has been identified as, E. G. Susantha Vijitha Kumara, a resident of Suriyapaluwa in Kadawatha, was arrested on a complaint lodged by the woman at the Women’s Bureau of the Kadawatha Police.

Woman Sub-Inspector of Police H. M. Iresha submitting a report to the courts stated that the woman has been hired as a cleaner in the public bathroom of the Kadawatha private bus stand and while she was about to shut the door of the bathroom, the suspect had come on that point later on being drunk and had raped her.

Iresha further reported that the suspect had scared the woman after hitting her on the face and the timekeepers, who heard her screams, had hurried to the scene and had handed over the suspect to the police after nabbing him.

The victim has been hospitalized for a medical testing while the judge put the police to direct further investigations and submit a report at the next trial date. 

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