Police dog helps arrest suspect related to body found in paddy field

 

Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the recent recovery of the body of a young woman in a paddy field in the Alwathugoda area in Kandy.

Accordingly, Police revealed that the suspect, identified as an area resident, was arrested with the help of a police dog named ‘Eagle’, who had caught the scent of the arrested individual in the muddy area in which the girl’s body had been buried.

The body of 26-year-old Danuka Maduwanthi was found on the morning of 11 March buried in a swampy area in a paddy field in the Alwathugoda area in Kandy.