Two youths abducted in Valaichenai

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 11:06 GMT]
Unidentified armed men abducted two youths displaced from Vaharai area, from their relatives house at Union Colony, Valaichenai in Batticaloa district, Tuesday around 9:30 p.m police said. The two abducted youths were forcibly taken away by the armed men who said the youths have to be interrogated, police added.

N. Tharmalingam, 25 and M. Balendran, 27 were among the civilians who were displaced from Vaharai because of the continuous shelling on Vaharai by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), Union Colony residents said.

The youths were abducted from a house 300 meters from the Valaichenai police station, an area dominated by Karuna paramilitary group which collaborates with the Sri Lanka Army, the sources added.

Valaichenai is located 27 km north of Batticaloa town.