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Updated: March 04, 2005 08:02 GMT
2ND LEAD
Students protest over death, tension in Jaffna

[TamilNet, March 04, 2005 06:44 GMT]
Tension prevailed in Jaffna town after a school girl was knocked down dead by a speeding Sri Lanka army vehicle Friday morning. Hundreds of students and teachers from Vembady Girls' Scool blocked traffic in protest following the accident. A group of civilians in the neighbourhood who joined the students' protest attempted to set fire to a Sri Lanka Air Force vehicle. Shops closed as SLA deployed hundreds of additional troops in the tense town around noon Friday. Around 1.45 p.m. a group of protestors set fire to a Sri Lanka army sentry at Catapult Junction in Kandar Madam, near Jaffna University.

Nagendram Dushika (12)The twelve year old school girl Nagendiram Dushika was crossing Hospital Road in Jaffna town when she was kocked down by a speeding military vehicle Friday morning.

She was pronounced dead when she was admitted to Jaffna hospital.

Dushika is from Manipay in Jaffna and was a grade 7 student at Vembady Girls' School in Jaffna town.


Students protest
Tension erupts in JaffnaBurning vehicle



Previous articles:
14.11.04  SLA, Police tear gas assault protestors in Jaffna
12.01.04  SLA driver remanded in Vadamaradchy fatal accident
11.01.04  SLA truck collision kills Karaveddy carpenter
26.12.03  SLA truck collision injures two Jaffna youths
16.11.03  Committee completes Jaffna SLA accident report
02.11.03  SLA tests Jaffna army drivers on traffic law
02.11.03  Civilian injured in SLA vehicle collision in Jaffn..
29.10.03  SLA soldier in Jaffna charged for traffic offence
29.10.03  Confronting collisions in Jaffna
21.10.03  Maj. Gen. Fonseka reproves Jaffna media
15.10.03  SLA vehicle collision causes panic in Jaffna
14.10.03  HRC to meet SLA commander on Jaffna road 'accident..
11.10.03  Police attack journalists in Jaffna melee
10.10.03  Jaffna SLA trains for crowd control
08.10.03  SLA bus hits woman in Jaffna
07.10.03  SLN truck collision injures motorcyclist in Jaffna
04.10.03  Army, Police clash with residents in Jaffna suburb..
03.10.03  Two youths die in SLA truck collision
17.07.03  SLA increases motorbike patrols in Vadamarachchi

Follow-ups:
04.03.05  One killed and another wounded as Sri Lanka troops..
04.03.05  Troops assault journalist, scores injured in Jaffn..


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