Body of woman who killed daughters found in river

(ANSA) - ROME, OCT 27 - The body of a woman who killed her three-year-old and 11-year-old daughters in an anti-domestic violence shelter outside Verona on Tuesday was found Wednesday afternoon in the Adige River about 300 metres from where her bag and cellphone were found on the riverbank.
    The 34-year-old Sri Lankan woman, Sachithra Ninansala Fernando Dewendra Mahawaduge, fled the shelter where the three were living after fleeing a violent father with drug problems.
    The woman and her daughters had been in the home at Porto San Pancrazio since January, after an order from a minors court for them to leave the family home due to the violent and abusive behaviour of the father, who had had drug problems in the past.
    An autopsy found Wednesday that the girls had been "violently suffocated", probably with pillow, ANSA was told. (ANSA).