Police identifies the body of woman dicovered from travelling bag

The woman’s body found in a travelling bag at the Bastian Mawatha private bus terminal in Pettah on Wednesday, had been identified as a 34-year-old resident of Jaffna, police said.

They said the name of the deceased was Rangan Karthika who was a resident of Vadukoddai, Jaffna. Police investigation has been launched in to the incident after the group of commuters found the abandoned bag, near the bus queue of the Anuradhapura bus stand, in which the body was found. The magisterial inquiry was carried out by Magistrate Thilina Gamage. Police are yet to discover whether the death was a murder.