{"id":27778,"date":"2014-02-01T21:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T02:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=27778"},"modified":"2014-02-03T23:24:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T04:24:02","slug":"senior-business-journalist-mel-gunasekara-found-murdered-at-her-battaramulla-residence-while-family-was-at-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=27778","title":{"rendered":"Senior Business Journalist Mel Gunasekara Found Murdered at her Battaramulla Residence While Family was at Church."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27786\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MG020214ETV2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27786\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MG020214ETV2.jpg\" alt=\"Mel Gunasekara-pic via: ETV\" width=\"215\" height=\"329\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27786\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mel Gunasekara-pic via: ETV<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ms. Mel Gunasekera the Assistant Vice President at Fitch Ratings Lanka and senior business Journalist was found murdered at her house in Battaramulla on Sunday February 2nd  morning, Police said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police said that Ms. Gunasekara  was found dead with injuries caused by a sharp weapon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations revealed that she was alone at home and that her brother and mother were at  Church when the incident occurred<\/p>\n<p>They had found her dead when they returned home .<\/p>\n<p>Police said that a special police team inquiring into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Gunasekara whose full name is Melicia used a shortened form of it for her byline as Mel.Born in 1973 she was 40 years old at the time of her death. She is an old student of St.Bridget&#8217;s Convent in Colombo and a member of the &#8220;class of 92&#8221; group.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Gunasekara had graduated from the University of East London specialising in Business studies and also had been trained as an accountant.<\/p>\n<p>After working as an assistant editor in the business section  at the &#8220;Sunday Times&#8221;in Colombo she started her own news website. Mel Gunasekara was the founder edeitor of &#8220;Lanka Business online&#8221;Sri Lankas&#8217;s first economic news portal.<\/p>\n<p>She then worked in the Colombo bureau of Agence France &#8211; Presse (AFP)covering Economic and political affairs of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27783\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MG020214.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27783\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/MG020214-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"Journalist Mel Gunasekara-pic via: facebook.com\/mel.gunasekera\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27783\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journalist Mel Gunasekara-pic via: facebook.com\/mel.gunasekera<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She is also the author of a book on Economic and Business Reporting that was translated into Dhiwehi by the Maldivian Ministry of Legal reform,Information and arts.<\/p>\n<p>She took up duties as the Assistant Vice president at Finch ratings while continuing to be a freelance journalist focussing on Economics and Business information.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton27778\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D27778&amp;text=Senior%20Business%20Journalist%20Mel%20Gunasekara%20Found%20Murdered%20at%20her%20Battaramulla%20Residence%20While%20Family%20was%20at%20Church.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Mel Gunasekera the Assistant Vice President at Fitch Ratings Lanka and senior business Journalist was found murdered at her house in Battaramulla on Sunday February 2nd morning, Police said Police said that Ms. Gunasekara was found dead with injuries caused by a sharp weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27778"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27856,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27778\/revisions\/27856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}