Police arrests 9 civilians in Kandy, Nugegoda

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 July 2007, 16:10 GMT]
Sri Lanka Police in a search operation carried out on Monday night in Polgolla, Kandy arrested four Tamil youths for not having valid documents to prove their identity and for failing to provide valid reasons for their stay in Kandy, police said.

Two of the arrested are from Galaha and the other two are from Nawala, Matale and from Kundasale, Kandy.

In another search operation conducted Monday in Mirihana area in Nugegoda, Colombo, five civilians including one Tamil were arrested for failing to prove their identity and are being investigated, Mirihana police said.