Batticaloa auto-rickshaw driver shot dead

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 15:41 GMT]
Mr. Tennakoon Mudiyansalage Sunil (46), an auto-rickshaw driver and resident of Iruthayapuram was shot and killed Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at Kallady in Batticaloa, police said. The three wheeler driver whose mother is a Tamil and the father is a Sinhalese, was shot by two gunmen who came in a motorbike.

The incident took place close to Thiruchenthur Murugan Temple at Kallady in Batticaloa.

Mr. Mudiyansalage was returning to his home in after a hair-cut in Navalady when he was shot, sources added.

Motives behind the killing was not clear, Kattankudy police said.

Navalady is located 3 km east of Batticaloa.