 Name: Sithambari Ganesaratnam (Male)
Age: 47
Marital status: Married with three children
Address: Thachchanthoppu, Kaithadi, Jaffna
Occupation: Owner of barber shopName: Visuvar Krishnan (Male)
Age: 52 Marital status:
Married with one child
Address: Thachchanthoppu, Kaithadi, Jaffna
Occupation: Barber shop assistant
Ganesaratnam owned a barber shop at the Kaithadi
junction in Jaffna. Krishnan worked in his barber shop as an assistant. They both traveled
together to the barber shop every morning and returned home in the evening. On 16th January 2006
the pair was returning home at 8.00 pm as usual. When they were traveling through Kiras
road towards their home in Thachchanthoppu they were shot dead at close range. Eye
witnesses say that the gunmen came in a three-wheeler. It is also worth noting that a
Sri Lankan Army (SLA) security post is located only 200 metres from the location where the
pair was shot dead. |
