{"id":1140,"date":"2026-05-12T08:17:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:17:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:17:16","slug":"man-killed-in-ambalantota-police-suspect-revenge-motive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/12\/man-killed-in-ambalantota-police-suspect-revenge-motive\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Killed in Ambalantota; Police Suspect Revenge Motive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Police have launched an investigation into the killing of a man and the serious injury of another person in the Boguduya area of Mamadala South, Ambalantota.<\/p>\n<p>Police stated that the deceased was a 34-year-old father of three children, while the injured individual was his father-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigations, three individuals had arrived at the victim\u2019s house intending to kill him. After the murder, the attackers allegedly removed the victim\u2019s head and left it beneath a statue at the Mamadala junction before fleeing the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police further revealed that the deceased had been a suspect in a triple murder that occurred on January 2 last year in the Alegoda West area of Ambalantota.<\/p>\n<p>He had been remanded in custody in connection with that case and was released on bail on March 30 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators suspect the murder may have been carried out as an act of revenge related to the earlier triple homicide case.<\/p>\n<p>Police also recovered a locally manufactured firearm believed to have been brought and abandoned by the attackers at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Further investigations are being conducted by Ambalantota Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka Police have launched an investigation into the killing of a man and the serious injury of another person in the Boguduya area of Mamadala South, Ambalantota. Police stated that the deceased was a 34-year-old father of three children, while the injured individual was his father-in-law. According to investigations, three individuals had arrived at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}