Another EPDP man killed
An EPDP organiser for the Puttlam area was shot dead last morning allegedly by a member of the LTTE pistol gang, Police said. Thambirasa Sivakumar (42) was returning home from the EPDP office at Thilliaddy in Puttalam yesterday morning on a bicycle with his daughter when the assailant, riding on the pillion of a motorbike fired at him. Mr. Sivakumar, a father of three, was admitted to hospital with serious head injuries and died later, Police said.The assailants got away.

Yesterday’s killing came a week after suspected LTTE gunmen shot dead EPDP member and former Point Pedro Pradeshiya Sabha member Arumugam Chandramohan alias Aruldas.

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