Fisherman’s body recovered from well in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Thursday, 04 February 2010, 04:09 GMT]
Police in Jaffna recovered the body of a fisherman with assault injuries Wednesday in Kozhumpuththu’rai in Jaffna and handed it over to Jaffna Teaching Hospital mortuary, sources in Jaffna said. The victim’s house is located near the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) sentry posts in Kozhumpuththu’rai, the sources added.

The victim was identified as Markandu Sivarasa, 34, a resident of Kozhumpuththu’rai.

Sivarasa had gone missing in the night when he went out of his house and his wife and children found his body in their well when they searched for him in the morning.