Sri lankan Woman dead, husband in custody in Surrey

Homicide investigators are at a house in Surrey, B.C., on Wednesday, after a 50-year-old real-estate agent was found dead and her husband was taken into custody.

RCMP were first called to the 15400 block of 91A Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Subalini Ratnanesan was found dead inside her home in what RCMP Sgt. Rob Morrow described as a "dramatic scene."

Her husband, 51-year-old Sivapragasam Ratnanesan, was found injured and taken to hospital, Morrow said. He was later released into the custody of homicide investigators.

Homicide and forensic investigators were inside the home Wednesday and police were not releasing the cause of death or any other details.

Morrow would not say whether Ratnanesan was considered a suspect in his wife's death, and would not comment on speculation the incident was a murder-suicide attempt.

The couple was from Sri Lanka and had two children — one daughter in high school and another attending university in Edmonton, neighbours told CBC News.

Subalini Ratnanesan was a real estate agent with Homelife in the Fleetwood neighbourhood, they said.

Source: cbc.ca
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