Tamil youth abducted in Muttur

[TamilNet, Saturday, 01 July 2006, 11:54 GMT]
A twenty five year old Tamil youth Mr.Raju was abducted by unidentified persons Saturday morning around 11:00 a.m. at Navalady in the heart of Muttur town when he was on his way to Muttur jetty, Muttur police said. The abducted youth was a resident of Ralkuli, an area controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and a labourer working in ferry plying between Navalady and Ralkuli, sources said.

Meanwhile, the whereabouts of the abducted Mr.Selliah Varnakulasingham, fifty five year old employee of the Muttur Pradesiya Sabha who has been working in the sub-office at Kaddaiparichchan located in the LTTE controlled Muttur east is still not known.

He was abducted two days ago by unidentified persons in the Muttur town when he was travelling in a three- wheeler to his village in Muttur east, Tamil civil sources said.

In the meantime, the Tamil civilian shot dead by soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) at Sampaltivu checkpoint Friday afternoon has been identified as Selvarajah Vasanthan aged 30 of 24, Amman Street, Linganagar, a suburb of the east port town.

The body was handed over to his relatives after the magisterial inquest Friday evening, sources said.

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