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youths claimed they were chained and tortured by LTTE One of them identified as Selvarajah Selvakumar, 19, from a village near Trincomalee escaped on Thursday and surrendered to Navy personnel deployed in the Trincomalee harbour area while the other man identified as Subramanium Vigneswara escaped on Friday and surrendered to army personnel at Kattaparichchan. Both men had been shackled but had managed to escape with the chains still on their ankles, security sources said. (see picture.) Selvakumar said he had been tortured after his abduction for refusing to join the LTTE. A few minutes after Selvakumar surrendered, 12 LTTE cadres had arrived at Sampur beach with T-56 rifles and fired 50-60 rounds before withdrawing to the jungle, Navy sources said. One of the youths, showing the marks on his legs told police he had tried to escape several times but failed and thus he was chained and tortured. He said two other youths had tried to escape with him but he did not know what happened to them. He swam about one kilometre before surrendering to the Navy. |
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