3 Tamil youths, travel agent arrested in Colombo

[TamilNet, Monday, 20 July 2009, 11:26 GMT]
Two Tamil youths who were waiting to take a flight to Cairo, capital of Egypt Thursday morning and another Tamil youth who arrived in Friday morning from Dubai were taken into custody at Katunayake International Airport by the Katunayake police. Police said they are being detained and are suspected to be LTTE cadres, sources in Colombo said.

Two Tamil youths arrested on Thursday morning were said to be staying in a lodge in Wellawatte and Kotahena for the last two months, according to inquires conducted by the police.

Another person said to be the manager of a travel agency who helped these two Tamil youths to obtain visa and other travel documents go abroad was also arrested and is being subjected to interrogation by the Police Intelligence Unit.

Police sources further said they recovered photographs of LTTE leader V.Pirapaharan and other LTTE documents from the Tamil youth arrested on Friday when he arrived in Katunayake from Dubai.

Katunayake police added, steps are being taken to hand over these three Tamils to the Criminal Investigation Department of the Police for further inquiry once the preliminary investigation is completed.