Ex-PLOTE member killed in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Monday, 20 June 2005, 14:34 GMT]
Mr Tharmalingam Asokan, 26, an auto-rikshaw driver and an ex-PLOTE member was shot and killed inside his auto-rikshaw at 12.30 PM Monday in Thalikkulam 13 km west of Vavuniya. Police, tracing an eyewitness who has seen the assassins to escape from the scene, suspected that the assassins were also travelling in the auto-rikshaw.

The gunmen had used 9 mm pistol, according to the Police.

The body was taken to Vavuniya Hospital for post mortem.

Police Inspectior Mr. Ananda Thipetuweva is coducting investigations into the killing.