Kayts youth found shot to death

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 16:14 GMT]


A twenty six year old youth who works as a minibus driver was found shot to death at his mother's house in Kayts Wednesday morning, sources in Jaffna said. Thambu Gopalasingham was alone in his house when the incident happened, according to sources.



Mr Gopalasingham's mother, who was away visiting one of her relatives, found the body of her son, with hands tied behind his back, with injuries from severe beating and with gun shot wounds at her home in Paruthiyaddaippu in Kayts, when she returned home, sources said.

Gopalasingham's body has been taken to Jaffna Teaching Hospital Wednesday afternoon for postmortem examinations, hospital sources said.