A postmortem examination was carried out on Monday into the three bodies of a mother and her two children, discovered in a house in the Kapugama area in Gandara, Matara last night .

According to the Director of the Matara General Hospital the mother and her children died by hanging, while the police stated today there had been no evidence of external influences.

lnitial investigations have revealed that the woman had been residing in the house with her children and that her husband had left the family around six months ago.

The magisterial inquest into the incident was conducted on Sunday.

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