Police Investigate Chain of Suspected Poison Suicides Linked to Religious Preacher’s Sermons
YAKKALA, SRI LANKA – The bodies of a young man and a woman, believed to have died from consuming poison, were discovered by police on Tuesday in the towns of Yakkala and Maharagama. Both individuals were reportedly followers of a religious preacher who had committed suicide in the Makumbura area of Homagama. According to Police Media Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa, seven deaths suspected to be suicides related to the consumption of a similar type of …