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2 Jaffna University Students shot dead by Sri Lanka Police

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2 Jaffna University Students shot dead by Sri Lanka PoliceSri Lanka Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of police has commenced an investigation into the deaths of two Jaffna University students, who were travelling on a motorcycle in Kankasanthurai.

The Postmortem into these deaths are now being held, and five Police officers suspected for the case have been arrested and immediately interdicted, the Government Information Department said in a statement.

During the postmortem of those two killed students, bullets were recovered in the body of one of the dead studenst, and immediately a tense situation began to erupt, but gradually normalcy restored.

According to available reports, yesterday around 11.30 PM two students died due to shooting and both of them were third year students of the Art Faculty of Jaffna University - Vijayakumar Sulakshan (24) from Kanthorodai, Chunnakam and other is Nadaraja Kajan (23), from 155th Mile Post, Kilinochchi. They both died, according to a report, while riding the motorcycle.

It has been revealed that the victims had been returning from a party in Kokuvil when the police ordered them to stop.

They proceeded without heeding the order and the police opened fire seriously injuring the rider.

Both University students, according to information, their deaths said to had occurred near the Kulapiddy Junction located in Jaffna -Kokkuvil road. Bodies of the deceased students were recovered and taken over to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital.

In the initial inquiry by the police, it was revealed that the motorcycle the students were riding clashed against a parapet wall in the road, as the rider might has lost control of the motorcycle due to overspreading. The police claimed the victims had been drunk at the time of the incident.

The postmortem inquiry has revealed that the rider had suffered two gun shot injuries to the head and bullets were recovered and it was announced that he died of gunshot injuries. The postmortem report stated that the other student in the pillion of the motorcycle died when their motorcycle crashed into a wayside parapet wall.

The Police Magistrate of the Jaffna Courts S.Sathieswaran who conducted the postmortem, as there were gunshot injuries in the body of one student he gave his verdict that the deaths as ‘murder’. He also ordered to conduct further investigation into the deaths of the two University students.

In the meantime, President Maithripala Sirisena had called for an immediate probe into the deaths of the two University students who had died in Kokuvil, Jaffna morning (21).

He has also ordered to interdict all police officers on duty at the Kulappiddy Junction in Kokuvil when the incident had taken place.


All necessary steps have been taken to ensure that the law is properly implemented in this regard, the government statement added.

Tamil Guardian reported that one of the students was shot to death while the other was beaten to death. The two studnets have been identified as 23 year old Nadarasa Kajan and 24 year old Pavunraja Sulaxan.

However, an official police statement said the motorcycle they were travelling on ran off the road and hit a wall injuring the two students seriously. They have succumbed to their injuries upon admission to the hospital, according to the police statement.

The leader of the Tamil National Alliance R Sampanthan has reportedly called on the Inspector General of Police for an impartial investigation into the deaths.

"Lanka University News” Strongly condemns this brutal deadly incident and hope Police launch impartial investigation into the deaths of innocent university students.

www.lankauniversity-news.com

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