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Mannar residents struggle to get petrol
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 03:06 GMT]
Petrol station run by Manthai West Multi Purpose Co-operative Society is surrounded by camps and sentry points of the State armed forces and residents of Mannar town fear going to the station. This petrol station located at the entrance to the town serves a population of about forty thousand and about two thousand vehicles with fuel for domestic, agricultural and fishing and transport purposes, civil sources said.
The petrol station started functioning since the year 1964 had earlier sold monthly 215 thousand litres of diesel, 190 thousand liters of kerosene and 13,320 litres of petrol.
Residents are forced to use two other petrol stations, one run by the Manthai South MPCS at Uyilankulam, about 13.5 km off Mannar town on Mannar-Madawachchiya road and the other run by Mannar MPCS at Siruthoppu on Mannar-Talaimannar Road about 13 km off Mannar town, civil sources said.
Man found shot dead in Urumpirai
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 03:09 GMT]
Body of Suppiah Murugan was found with gunshot wounds Monday night at Urumpiray Junction along Jaffna Palaly road in front of Urumpirai Hindu College, sources said. Mr Murugan is from Trincomalee and was presently a resident of Navatkuly.
Murugan was working as a cook at a resteraunt in Urumpirai.
The killing in high security zone where there is 24-hour surveillance by the security forces has shocked Urumpirai residents.
The body has been transported to Jaffna Teaching Hospital for postmortem examinations.
Ten civilians said arrested by SLN in Karainagar
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 03:22 GMT]
Human Rights Commission in Jaffna received complaints Monday that ten civilians in Karainagar in Jaffna islets have been arrested by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) at 12.30 p.m. Monday, sources in Jaffna said. The arrests occured when Navy soldiers carried out cordon and search operation after discovering hand grenades hidden near a tree at the Valanthalai junction in Karainagar.
Two of the arrested, Vijayaratnam Sathees, 26, and Perambalam Arulrajah, 40, were working at a hair-cuttery in Valathalai Junction when they were arrested.
Three others arrested were school students who were walking from Karainagar School near the Valanthalai junction.
When the relatives inquired at the Karainagar SLN camp on the whereabouts of the arrested the SLN has denied arresting anyone.
Navy convoy attacked in Trinco, 2 civilians killed in retaliation
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 06:19 GMT]
A cycle bomb placed along the Nilaveli-Trincomalee road near a bus depot hit a Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) bus convoy carrying soldiers towards east port town at the third mile post junction Tuesday around 10:05 a.m. Sri Lanka troops fired in retaliation killing two Tamil civilians and injuring several Tamil civilians, four of them have been brought to Trincomalee general hospital. Initial reports said about eleven soldiers were seriously injured and are admitted to navy hospital, which is located inside the SLN eastern region headquarters in the east port town.
The cycle bomb, detonated by remote control, had missed the target, Sri Lankan defence sources said.
Meanwhile a SLAF helicopter landed in naval headquarters to airlift seriously injured sailors to Colombo.
One of the wounded civilians, shot in his head by the soldiers, is to be transferred to Colombo hospital in critical condition, medical sources said.
Mannar residents struggle to get petrol
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 03:06 GMT]
Petrol station run by Manthai West Multi Purpose Co-operative Society is surrounded by camps and sentry points of the State armed forces and residents of Mannar town fear going to the station. This petrol station located at the entrance to the town serves a population of about forty thousand and about two thousand vehicles with fuel for domestic, agricultural and fishing and transport purposes, civil sources said.
The petrol station started functioning since the year 1964 had earlier sold monthly 215 thousand litres of diesel, 190 thousand liters of kerosene and 13,320 litres of petrol.
Residents are forced to use two other petrol stations, one run by the Manthai South MPCS at Uyilankulam, about 13.5 km off Mannar town on Mannar-Madawachchiya road and the other run by Mannar MPCS at Siruthoppu on Mannar-Talaimannar Road about 13 km off Mannar town, civil sources said.
Man found shot dead in Urumpirai
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 03:09 GMT]
Body of Suppiah Murugan was found with gunshot wounds Monday night at Urumpiray Junction along Jaffna Palaly road in front of Urumpirai Hindu College, sources said. Mr Murugan is from Trincomalee and was presently a resident of Navatkuly.
Murugan was working as a cook at a resteraunt in Urumpirai.
The killing in high security zone where there is 24-hour surveillance by the security forces has shocked Urumpirai residents.
The body has been transported to Jaffna Teaching Hospital for postmortem examinations.
Ten civilians said arrested by SLN in Karainagar
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 03:22 GMT]
Human Rights Commission in Jaffna received complaints Monday that ten civilians in Karainagar in Jaffna islets have been arrested by Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) at 12.30 p.m. Monday, sources in Jaffna said. The arrests occured when Navy soldiers carried out cordon and search operation after discovering hand grenades hidden near a tree at the Valanthalai junction in Karainagar.
Two of the arrested, Vijayaratnam Sathees, 26, and Perambalam Arulrajah, 40, were working at a hair-cuttery in Valathalai Junction when they were arrested.
Three others arrested were school students who were walking from Karainagar School near the Valanthalai junction.
When the relatives inquired at the Karainagar SLN camp on the whereabouts of the arrested the SLN has denied arresting anyone.
Navy convoy attacked in Trinco, 2 civilians killed in retaliation
[TamilNet, January 17, 2006 06:19 GMT]
A cycle bomb placed along the Nilaveli-Trincomalee road near a bus depot hit a Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) bus convoy carrying soldiers towards east port town at the third mile post junction Tuesday around 10:05 a.m. Sri Lanka troops fired in retaliation killing two Tamil civilians and injuring several Tamil civilians, four of them have been brought to Trincomalee general hospital. Initial reports said about eleven soldiers were seriously injured and are admitted to navy hospital, which is located inside the SLN eastern region headquarters in the east port town.
The cycle bomb, detonated by remote control, had missed the target, Sri Lankan defence sources said.
Meanwhile a SLAF helicopter landed in naval headquarters to airlift seriously injured sailors to Colombo.
One of the wounded civilians, shot in his head by the soldiers, is to be transferred to Colombo hospital in critical condition, medical sources said.