Home guard killed in Serunuwara

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 01 November 2006, 03:02 GMT]
A Sinhala home guard was shot dead by a group of unknown gunmen who attacked a home guard checkpost at Neelapola in Serunuwara police division in Trincomalee district Tuesday early morning around 12.40 a.m. by unidentified men, Sri Lanka security sources said. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers retaliated but gunmen escaped, according to police sources said.

Military sources in Colombo had alleged that the LTTE was responsible for the attack.