Son slits father's neck with knife

SRI LANKA: An incident has been described from the Aranayake police division where a son had hit the father with a pole and when he fell on the ground, he had cut down the victim’s neck with a knife to death, ‘Lankadeepa’ reported.

The victim has been identified as, Sellaih Sivegnanasundarama, aged 50, a resident of Narangala in Ambalankanda.

When the victim along with his wife watering the plants, there had been an argument between the two and the son, who was inside the house, who upon hearing the commotion, had come out of home and promptly hit the father with a pole thinking that the he was yelling at him. Thereafter he slashed the man’s neck with a knife.

Police said that they have arrested the suspect and revealed that there had been a dispute between the father and the son over land for some time.

Aranayake police, while conducting investigations, has made arrangements to produce the suspect before Mawanella magistrate court.

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