Man shot dead, another injured in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 07:16 GMT]
A young man was shot dead and another was injured in two seperate incidents, Wednesday morning in Vavuniya, police in the northern town said.

Ramasamy Jeyakody,40, an employee at the Vavuniya Urban Council was shot dead at Vepankulam by unidentified men around 8 a.m., at Vepankulam, the police said. Vepankulam is 3 k.m., northwest of Vavuniya.

Separately, a youth was shot and seriously injured at Katkuli, a suburb of Vavuniya town, around 10.45 a.m., the police said.

He was admitted at the Vavuniya hospital.