SL Police arrest 2 Tamil youths at Katunayake

[TamilNet, Friday, 23 October 2009, 03:40 GMT]
Sri Lanka police took two Tamil youths of the north into custody in two separate incidents while the youths were waiting at the Katunayake International Airport to go abroad for employment, according to complaints lodged by their elatives to the police and Missing Peoples Monitoring Committee (MPMC) in Colombo. The arrested youths had valid travel documents.

Thuraisamy Sureshkumar, 32, of Araaly North of Jaffna district was arrested on October 10, and Thangarajah Nishanthan, 21, of Karuveppank’ulam Vavuniyaa district was arrested on October 20, filed complaints said.

MPMC officials, on inquiries made with Colombo police, located Sureshkumar being detained at Boosa detention camp and Nishanthan at Terrorist Intelligence Division in Colombo.