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08-12-2006, 10:55 PM
UNIDENTIFIED gunmen have shot dead a top Sri Lankan official involved in the Norwegian-led peace process with Tamil Tiger rebels.
Ketheesh Loganathan, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Peace Secretariat, was shot at his home in Colombo's Dehiwala suburb, police said, adding that he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
The assassination came as government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in fierce combat in the island's northeast despite a truce that has been nominally in place since 2002.
Agence France-Presse
Ketheesh Loganathan, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Peace Secretariat, was shot at his home in Colombo's Dehiwala suburb, police said, adding that he was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
The assassination came as government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in fierce combat in the island's northeast despite a truce that has been nominally in place since 2002.
Agence France-Presse