The suspect who was arrested and remanded for pushing his wife and child into the sea, which resulted in the death of the child, was further remanded until October 21..

The suspect was produced before the Balapitiya Magistrate R. Jayasuriya on Wednesday. When the case was taken up today, evidence was recorded from the three-wheeler driver who drove the surviving wife of the suspect to her residence, subsequent to the incident.

The suspect allegedly pushed his wife and child into the sea in Induruwa on September 18.

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