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08:00, January 04, 2008 |
The Colombo Magistrate Court Thursday ordered 11 suspects who are being held for the alleged involvement in Tuesday's gunning down of an opposition legislator be further held in custody for investigations.
The Colombo Additional Magistrate Ravi Premaratne ordered the police to further hold in detention all including the main suspectwho is currently warded in hospital.
Thiagarajah Maheswaran, the slain Tamil Legislator from the main opposition United National Party (UNP) was the target in the killing carried out by unidentified gunman.
He was shot at inside the Ponnambalawaneswar Hindu temple in northern Colombo's Kochchikade area around 10 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) on Tuesday.
Maheswaran from the northern town of Jaffna was the sole Tamil legislator in the UNP.
The magistrate also ordered the police to treat as vital information a television interview given by the slain legislator last week wherein he had given details of threats to his life.
Maheswaran became the third Tamil parliamentarian to have been killed since the escalation of the armed conflict between Tamil Tiger rebels and government troops at the end of 2005.
Joseph Pararajasingham from the main Tamil party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) was gunned down as he attended the Christmas day church service in 2005 while another TNA legislator Nadarajah Raviraj was killed in Colombo on Nov. 10, 2006.
Source:Xinhua
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