2ND LEAD (Correction)

Three men shot dead in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Friday, 15 September 2006, 04:55 GMT]
Three men have been shot dead by unidentified persons in Jaffna town and its suburbs, Thursday night, according to hospital and police sources in the northern town.

Two employees of a liquor shop at Manipay road in Jaffna town were shot dead and one wounded while they were sleeping.

Separately, armed men driving a white van, without registration number, dumped a body in Aavrankaal in Valikamam east, Thursday night, villagers said.

The young man was blind folded and shot on his dead, villagers who saw the body Friday morning said.

The victims have not been identified yet.