
Two LTTE members killed by gunfire in Military occupied Thambiluvil in the East
LTTE members Ramesh and Susiventhan, riding a motor cycle, unarmed and proceeding towards Thambiluvil from the Political Office in Pavadda for political work, were shot dead this morning around 07.30. A blue van reportedly driven by a person clad in police uniform with one more police uniformed individual and another six in civil, has approached the LTTE members and firing took place from within the van.
Eye witnesses testify to the fact that the assailants had AK-47 rifles with them and the vehicle went into the STF camp in Kanchirankudah. The two LTTE members attained martyrdom on the spot itself. Official complaint to this effect has been handed over to the SLMM at Amparai.
10 August 2005
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