Policemen assisted by troops rushed to the general area east of Puttur in Jaffna on Tuesday (18) night around 9.50 p.m. to recover the remains of five dead men who had reportedly been traveling in a three-wheeler at the time of their murder.
One of the relatives of the victims, Balasubramaniam Kandasan, reached the Puttur Army detachment to report that his brother,Kandasan (26) of Puttur east was found murdered by him close to Puutur centre.
LTTE has launched a massive propaganda campaign to blame the Sri Lankan while the relative of the victims blame the LTTE which they say has launched a retaliatory attacks on dissident Tamils.
Troops with Policemen from Atchchuvely Police Station rushed to the scene and found remains of five dead men lying close to the three- wheeler (WP QA 0767) in which they were allegedly traveling.
All five of them identified as K.Gowribalan (32), Mahadevan Kishor Kumar (20), Balasubramanian Kannadasan (27), Thangarajah Raveendran (27) and Sellappu Kamaladasan (25) were residents from that area.
Police together with the troops were making preparations for post mortem after initial investigations were over.
The motive behind the slaying is yet to be identified.
No arrest has been so far made by the Police.
The Police maintain that the murder would have been carried out by the LTTE as a retaliatory measure.
The SLMM was informed of the murder.
The Atchchuveli Police are conducting investigations.
Meanwhile, another civilian from Colombuthurai area in Jaffna has fallen victim to an unidentified gunman, believed to be a Tamil Tiger, on Tuesday (18) around 4.00 p.m.
The victim has been identified as Balachandran Reginals Roshan (27) of Sebastian Road, Jaffna.
The dead body has been brought to the Jaffna hospital for post -mortem and magisterial inquiries.
The Jaffna police are conducting investigations.
Tamilnet the chief agency for the LTTE immediately released a story blaming the Security Forces for the murder of civilians.
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) denied this story. Army spokesperson said that eye witnesses have told a different story.
The TamilNet blaming the troops that those five civilians were ordered to run through an open terrain near the Army camp before they were shot.
The civilians killed were identified as Kandasamy Gowribalan, 32, a Municipal Council official, Balasubramaniam Kannathasan, 27, Sellappu Kamalathasan, 25, an electrical mechanic, Mahadevan Kishokumar, 20, a farmer and Thangarajah Raveendran, 27, the other auto-rikshaw driver who went searching for the missing persons.
Three dead bodies were found together and the other two were found 200 meters away by the villagers Wednesday morning.
Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) officials visited the massacre site. Tension prevails in Puthur.
(http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=17692)
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