Paramilitary white van squad abducts 3 youths in Santhiveli, Batticaloa

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 19 September 2006, 15:13 GMT]
Paramilitary armed men arriving in a white van abducted three youths in Santhiveli, falling under Eravur police division in Batticaloa on Monday around 7 p.m. When the mothers of the three abductees went and enquired at the Karuna group paramilitary camp in Maruthangala, Welikanda in Batticaloa, they were told the youths were brought in to carry out some work and the parents were asked to go away.

Ramachandran Kanthan, 25, Erambamoorthy Uruthira, 23, and Sabapathy Piraba, 24, all of Santhiveli Pillayar Kovil street.