Schoolgirl abduction causes alarm in Vadamaradchi

[TamilNet, Thursday, 29 March 2001, 17:45 GMT]
Kandasamy Sasindraani, an 18-year-old school girl, was blindfolded and abducted off the road in Vadamaradchi on Monday 26 March by Sri Lanka army personnel while she was on her way to a tuition centre, according to a complaint lodged by her mother at the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Jaffna town Thursday. The woman told the ICRC that her daughter was blindfolded and forced into an army vehicle uniformed men.

The girl was left by the roadside blindfolded on Wednesday by the army personnel who abducted her, the mother said.

The abduction has caused alarm in the area from where Sasindraani was abducted, sources said.