Body recovered from Valigamam well

[TamilNet, Saturday, 31 May 2003, 17:20 GMT]
The body of Arumugam Sivapatham, a fifty-year-old resident of Neerveli in Valigamam east division in Jaffna district was recovered from an agricultural well located at Raja Veethi-Karanthan junction, police sources said.

The deceased is reported to have been missing two days ago, according to a complaint made to the Police by his relatives.

His motorbike was also recovered at the scene, police said.

Preliminary investigations conducted by the Police revealed that the deceased had been clubbed to death, police sources said.