Youth shot dead in Urumpirai

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 July 2006, 15:52 GMT]
Unknown gunmen waiting in ambush shot dead a youth in Urumpirai at 8:00 p.m. Sunday, sources in Jaffna said. C. Kapilraj, 18, was walking along Sivakula Lane towards a friends house 200 meters away from his residence when gunmen hiding behind overgrown shrubs fired at Kapilraj and escaped, residents said.

Kapilraj's body is still lying where he was shot, residents in Urumpirai said.