Two youths shot dead in Thiriyai

[TamilNet, Thursday, 01 March 2007, 11:54 GMT]
Two youths, one Tamil and other a Muslim, were shot dead by unidentified armed persons at Ilupakadaivai in Thiriyai, a resettled Tamil village located about 40 km off north of Trincomalee town on Wednesday night around 10 p.m., sources in Trincomalee said. Unidentified men had gone to the house where two youths were staying and shot them dead, sources said.

The victims were identified as M.Vikram, 26, and Mansil, 24, sources said.

Mansil, a native of Teldeniya in Kandy district in central province, had come to Thiriyai on business, sources said.