Five civilians shot and killed by SLA soldiers in Puthur East, Jaffna
[TamilNet, April 19, 2006 03:11 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers shot and killed five Tamil civilians Tuesday night close to an SLA 51-1 Division camp located at Vatharavathai, 13 km north-east of Jaffna. The SLA soldiers took the five civilians, a Municipal Council official, an electrical mechanic, a farmer and two auto-rikshaw drivers, inside the army camp and later brought them out to an open terrain and gunned them down, villagers said. A terror-campaign, let loose on the civilians in the area by the soldiers attached to the SLA camp after the villagers spoiled a rape attempt in the village, triggered a series of Claymore attacks in Jaffna last October. Tension prevails in Puthur area.
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