UN worker arrested with small pistol in Sri Lanka
A Sri Lankan national working with the World Food Programme (WFP) of the UN was arrested Wednesday with a micro pistol in his possession at a security roadblock in the north of the island nation.
'The suspect was travelling from Kilinochchi to Batticaloa when he was arrested by the security forces at the Irattaperiyakulam road block in Vavuniya around 12.45 p.m. on Wednesday,' the defence ministry here said.
It said that the suspect, identified as Thiagaraja Prabhakaran, 'is a resident of Batticaloa and is currently working with the UNDP office in Kilinochchi', an area held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north.
According to the ministry, the suspect while questioning confessed that an LTTE agent had given him the micro pistol to be handed over to a person in the eastern Batticaloa district, where the provincial council election is set to be held May 10.
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'The suspect was travelling from Kilinochchi to Batticaloa when he was arrested by the security forces at the Irattaperiyakulam road block in Vavuniya around 12.45 p.m. on Wednesday,' the defence ministry here said.
It said that the suspect, identified as Thiagaraja Prabhakaran, 'is a resident of Batticaloa and is currently working with the UNDP office in Kilinochchi', an area held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north.
According to the ministry, the suspect while questioning confessed that an LTTE agent had given him the micro pistol to be handed over to a person in the eastern Batticaloa district, where the provincial council election is set to be held May 10.
Read more,
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/
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