Tamil youth abducted, another missing in Colombo

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 15:12 GMT]
Two Tamil youths were abducted Monday by unidentified armed persons in two separate incidents in Dehiwala and Narahenpitiya in Colombo, according to Civil Monitoring Committee.

Narayanasingham Loganathan, 30, a native of Chuzhipuram in Jaffna district, has been reported missing since Monday. He was a resident of Colombo and was running a telecommunication centre. He left his work place Monday evening but failed to return home, according to a complaint with the CMC.

Meanwhile, another 17 year-old Tamil youth, a native of Talawakelle in Nuwara Eliya district in the upcountry, was abducted a group of persons. The abductors, who came in a three-wheeler, forcibly took him at Samagi Thoaddam along Girimanadalaya Mawatte in Narahenpitiya, according to a complaint by the victim's grandmother.