Mel Gunasekara, a senior journalist in Sri Lanka has been found murdered today in her home in Battaramulla, according to local reports.
She was a former journalist for the AFP news agency, the founding editor of Lanka Business Online, and an assistant editor of the Sunday Times newspaper.
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