Businessman shot dead in Ariyalai

[TamilNet, Friday, 02 March 2007, 01:54 GMT]
A businessman from Kanagaratnam Road in Ariyalai Jaffna inside the Jaffna Municipal boundary was shot dead by unknown gunmen at 10:30 p.m. Thursday night, sources in Jaffna said. The gunmen went to Mr Manikkam Manoharan's house in a motorbike, called the man to come outside the house, and shot him at point blank range before escaping, sources said.

Manoharan was 44 years old and married.

Jaffna Police recovered the body Friday morning and transferred the body to the Jaffn Teachin Hospital for postmortem examinations, hospital sources said.