LTTE Sports chief shot dead

Velalagan alias Papa, who was a senior cadre who was in-charge of LTTE’s sports activities at Kilinochchi, when the outfit was active in the region was shot dead by fellow cadres while he attempting to escape with the members of his family in a boat a few days ago from Puthumathalan, informed sources said.

Papa was a senior cadre in the LTTE who held the position as the Head of the Sports Activities when the outfit was in control of Kilinochchi, sources said. A large number of cadres and their families have now crossed into safer areas by boats and by land routes, sources said.

The civilians who have escaped into safer areas said that a big tussle has broken out in the areas where the LTTE is still holding the civilians between the cadres and families who were trying to escape. The cadres were preventing them from escaping.