Jilted lover runs amok, kidnaps girl

Ambalanthota Police are on the trail to arrest several persons who entered a house and kidnapped a girl in Walawwatte in Ambalanthota last Tuesday.

Police said the leader of the group of thugs has had an affair with the girl who was kidnapped by them when the parents had objected to the affair. The former lover of the girl had come to the house last Tuesday night around 2.00 a.m. with several others and had forcibly entered the house after shooting at the lock of the main door.

After threatening the parents at gun point, the former lover had kidnapped her with the support of his henchmen and fled in a vehicle.