The body of an elderly woman was found murdered in a house in the Rasawin area in the Kopay police division in Jaffna, police said.

A group of students of the Jaffna University are staying at the woman’s house on a rent basis

When the students went to the university and returned home, they found the housewife murdered on a chair and the students informed the Kopay police.

Police later arrived at the house and found that the woman had been hit in the head and that a flower pot had fallen on the ground nearby, leading to suspicion that the woman had died from a blow to the head from a flower pot.

The deceased has been 72-year-old Marainayagam Jayaseeli.

Investigations are underway to arrest the man on suspicion that he had assaulted the woman and fled after the woman had come to the hired labourer in the deceased woman’s garden that day and that the man who had come to work was missing as jewellery gold jewelery worn by the deceased woman was missing.