Sri Lanka arrests police over Tamil student deaths

Author: AFP

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan authorities arrested and suspended five police officers Friday over the death of two Tamil students under suspicious circumstances in the former war-zone of Jaffna, the government said.

Police initially said the pair died in a motorbike accident just before midnight on Thursday in the Jaffna peninsula which saw some of the bloodiest fighting during Sri Lanka’s civil war that ended in 2009. But authorities arrested the officers involved after it emerged that one of the victims had been shot dead, prompting fears of “a police coverup”, an official source told AFP.

The government information department later issued a statement confirming that the five officers were arrested and suspended from their jobs in Jaffna, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Colombo.

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