Police have received information that the mob which attacked a house in Vavuniya on Sunday, while a birthday party was being held, were looking for a particular individual. However, when the mob came to the house, they found that the individual had already left the party, and it is believed that they attacked the house in anger.
The Police suspect that the 21-year-old girl who was killed in the incident, saw the mob entering the house, and had screamed loudly, and they had then stabbed her with a knife and set the house on fire.
The group who entered the house had called out a name and asked if that person was in that house.
As several people in the house were in a serious condition due to burns, the difficulty for the Police to know how the incident happened has become a big obstacle to arresting the members of the mob. It has been gathered that the person that the mob were looking for is also a known underworld figure in Vavuniya and he had previously demanded ransom from many people and injured them when they did not pay.
The house which was attacked belonged to a businessman in the Vavuniya Thonical area, and 21-year-old Fatima Saseema Saidi, a relative of his, who had come to the party, was killed and 10 others were injured in the incident. Four of the 10 injured were children under the age of 15.
Vavuniya Police are deploying several Police teams to arrest the members of the mob that carried out the attack.