Paramilitary cadre shot dead in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 27 September 2004, 09:45 GMT]
A member of a paramilitary group working with the Sri Lanka army was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Jaffna Monday afternoon, Police said. The man, identified as Valli Sundaram, was riding a motorbike on KKS Road between Maruthanamadam and Inuvil when two gunmen on a motorbike fired on him with a handgun, according to Police.



Mr. Sundaram is a member of the paramilitary, EPRLF (V).

He is from the coastal village of Myiliddy. Mr. Sundaram was residing in the EPRLF (V) camp by the Sri Lanka army's main garrison in Jaffna town after he was displaced from his village due to Sri Lanka army operations in 1990, Police said.