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woman, mother killed in Rome The victims are Violet Mary and her mother Madasamy Gunawathi, (50). Violet Mary's husband Kanagarasa Thayalan, employed in Colombo received the last telephone call from his wife a day prior to her mysterious death. The phone call was to say that she was making all preparations for sponsoring him and advising him to make the necessary arrangements to travel to Italy. Thayalan had met his future wife at a relative's place in Colombo when she arrived from Italy on a holiday. "We married a year ago and I was waiting to proceed to Italy. I called her home the day after she phoned me but the phone was not answered. I phoned her workplace and was told she had not reported for work. I phoned her sister who lived in a city near by and told her I had not received a response from my wife", Thayalan told The Sunday Times. He said his wife's sister had immediately gone to the house and made inquiries from the residents in the upper floor and was told they had not seen either of them. "When the door of the house was forced open both my wife and her mother were found dead. My wife had been strangled while her mother had been stabbed", he said. Thayalan said his family was caught in the tsunami in Thiruthchendur, Batticaloa and their entire house destroyed. His own sister and mother were washed away, but had been miraculously saved by neighbours. "My wife sent us money and clothes and assured us that she would help us. Her plan was to get me down to Italy as she had left a year after our marriage", he said. After the tsunami hit he had brought the rest of his family to Colombo and was hoping to rebuild their home in Batticaloa with financial assistance from his wife. "All my plans have been shattered and now I am just trying to be there for the funeral. As most of my wife's relatives are in Italy they have decided to have the funeral in Italy", Thayalan said. So far there has been no major breakthrough in the investigations as police continue their probe into the killings. |
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