North in flames again owing to the school girl raped and killed
Owing to a hartal made against the killing of a school girl by the people of the North the daily
activities of the town had come to a standstill on the 24th instant.It is reported that a 14 year old school girl Harishnavee Dayabaran from a school in Ukkulankulam in Vavuniya had been raped and killed on the 16th instant. In this regard the Vavuniya police with the Senior Superintendent of Police Vavuniya had commenced investigations deploying two special units.
While the investigations were in progress some civil organisations in Jaffna had got together and declared the 24th instant as a day of 'Hartal' which had made the activities of the town to come to a standstill. For this Hartal the commercial unions, three wheeler unions, private bus unions have made the hartal a success crippling the daily activities of the entire town.
The Tamil medium schools ,all government departments, long service buses in Vavuniya also had given support to the hartal on this day.Like in Jaffna all markets and hospitals were also closed.The patients who arrived to obtain medicine had been disappointed.
It was also reported the activities in Mulativu, Killinochchi and Mannar were disrupted. However the train services in the north had been normal. The protestors had carried slogans asking to arrest the culprits for the rape and murder of the school girl and to sentence them to death.