SLA intelligence officer killed in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Thursday, 02 October 2003, 14:18 GMT]
Mr T.Vigneswaran, an intelligence officer of the Sri Lanka Army working at the 221 Brigade headquarters located in Plantain Point in Trincomalee died Thursday evening due to severe assault with pointed weapons and iron rods by unidentified persons, Trincomalee police said.

Some unidentified persons assaulted him when he was returning home after work from the brigade headquarters in Orr's Hill in Trincomalee, police said.

Police said Mr.Vigneswaran was earlier with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and later joined the SLA as an intelligence officer.

Immediately, Sri Lanka’s army and police tightened the security of the area where the incident had taken place, sources said