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The Sri Lankan government has issued a gazette notification banning the movement of trucks, trailer lorries, parades, demonstrations, rallies, gatherings (political or otherwise) and motorcades within the high security zone in and around Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s residence “Temple Trees” in Colombo with immediate effect, officials in Colombo said. The lighting of firecrackers or fireworks for any reason within the HSZ is also totally prohibited.

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About 30 Tamil civilians were taken in for questioning by the Sri Lankan police following the bomb blast in Pettah, Colombo, Saturday afternoon. Around 45 civilians were injured in the blast.

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Armed persons abducted a 32-year-old man from his residence at Ka’n'nakipuram in Vaazhaichcheanai police division Saturday around 2:30 p.m., according to complaints lodged with the police by the victim’s family members. The victim, Kanapathipillai Vasanthakumar, a father of two, had returned to his village 45 days ago after his employment in a Middle East country, police said.

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Unknown armed men shot and killed two youths Sunday afternoon east of Jaffna District Secretariat in Chu’ndikkuzhi, Police said. The victims were identified from the identity cards in their possession as 26-year-old Nithyananthan Thushyanthan, from 120 Brown Road, Jaffna and 29-year-old Kanagaratnam Narmathan, from Kantharmadam 119/2. One of the victims is a student of a Malaysian University, who seems to have come to Jaffna recently.

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