A suspect arrested in connection to the murder of the nine-year-old girl in the Kudalunuka area in Mahiyanganaya is due to be produced before the Mahiyanganaya Magistrate Court on Monday.

The 32-year-old suspect is a resident of the Yalwela area in Morana, Dikwela.

Malki Sandamini Premasiri, a Grade four student at the Kudalunuka Junior School in Rideemaliyadda, Mahiyangana, was murdered by an individual while she was on her way home from school.

She was killed three kilometres away from her home. Her body was discovered on the banks of the Ulhitiya Oya.

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