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Armed men abduct Tamil man in white van in Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 10:38 GMT]
Armed men who came in a white van abducted a 30-year-old Tamil man in the early of Thursday from his house in Akkaraippattu in Batticaloa district, according to a complaint lodged by the wife of the victim at Akaaraippattu Police on Monday

The victim, Balasundaram Theivendran, was sleeping at his house located in the Tsunami resettlement village in Ka'n'nakipuram.

A group of unidentified men wearing black clothes knocked the doors of the house around 3:00 a.m., Mrs Theivendran told the police in her complaint. When she opened the doors the intruders entered forcibly and took her husband at gun point amid her protest and shouts.