Two campus students in Jaffna supposed to have died from police gun shots

Two campus students in Jaffna supposed to have died from police gun shots - Duties of five from Police suspended

Investigations are closing upon evidence that the two university students who were travelling on a motor cycle last night in Kankasanthurai had died as a result of police gun shots. 

At present the Government Information Department say that 5 police officers have been taken into custody on suspicion regarding the incident and their duties have been suspended. What the Police Media Spokesman Office told this morning was that the deaths have occured with the motor cycle on which these students had been travelling after having struck a wall. However subsequent
investigations revealed that it was a woven up story by officers who were on duty there at that time. 

The two deceased students are Nadaraja Kajan of the Political Faculty and Puwanraja Sulakshan Kandarodai attached to Mass Media. It is revealed from unofficial information streaming in that the deceased had around 11.30 in the night on Thursday had been riding the motor cycle towards Kokuvil and that when the police ordered them to stop the bike had proceeded without heeding police orders. Unofficial news further say that under the above conditions the police had fired at the motor cycle and simultaneously the motor cycle had struck a wall of a house nearby and thus met with this accident.

Jaffna Magistrate Mr. S. Sathishkaran had visited the scene of the accident and conducted the autopsy while the hospital Judicial Medical Officer who held the post-mortem said was that the rider of the motor cycle had sustained two gun shots on his head and that the accident had taken place because he had been unable to control the motor cycle and though the pillion-rider had not received any gun shots he had died because of injured sustained from the accident. When the police had attempted to interpret the incident as a normal incident, neighbours had created a commotion saying, "No ... no we heard gunfire!" For this reason the investigations have been handed over to the CID. Campus students of Jaffna have asked that an impartial inquiry be conducted and information is received that the Human Rights Commission too have launched an investigation.