Home guards massacre 3 Tamils, abduct 2

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 18:16 GMT]
Three Tamil civilians were hacked to death and two children were abducted by Sinhala home huards at Thanganagar in Seruvila police division Wednesday afternoon around 2 p.m., civil sources said.

The dead were identified as Rasiah Sivalingam, (40), Krishnapillai Jeevarajah (40), and Velupillai Pathmanathan (28).

The names of abducted are: -Yoganathan Alagendran, 11 and Mylvaganam Mohanasingham, 9, the sources said.

The Sinhala home guards covered their faces with black clothes entered the houses of Tamil civilians and pulled up the inmates and had cut them to death. Women in these houses had fled from the area, the sources said.