Information About Incident 40974-78456-193320 in Vavuniya Sri Lanka

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Meanwhile, acting on information provided by a special Police team, the Criminal Investigating Department (CID) arrested a key Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspect involved in the Central Bank bomb blast in 1996 from the Udarikulam Road of Chettikulam in the Vavuniya District, reports Daily News.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Central Bank Udarikulam Road of Chettikulam Vavuniya District
• Matched District: Vavuniya
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: the Criminal Investigating Department ( CID )
• Subject: a key Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE )

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Meanwhile, acting on information provided by a special Police team, the Criminal Investigating Department (CID) arrested a key Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspect involved in the Central Bank bomb blast in 1996 from the Udarikulam Road of Chettikulam in the Vavuniya District, reports Daily News. Sellathambi Navaratnam (53) had surrendered to the Security Forces as an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) during the last stages of the battle in Vellamullivaikkal on May 16, 2009 along with several other IDPs. The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), I. M. Karunaratne, said in the Government move to resettle the IDPs from camps in Vavuniya, people aged over 60 were released in the recent past. Producing a forged Identity Card, Navaratnam escaped from the camp in Vavuniya. Navaratnam who is 53 years, grabbing the opportunity forged an ID card indicating that he is over 60 years and used it to flee from the IDP camp, he added. It was revealed that Navaratnam had played a key role in the Central Bank bomb blast in 1996. He had brought the bomb laden lorry to Colombo on before the attack and returned to Kilinochchi, the SSP said. He noted that Navaratnam was convicted by the Colombo High Court for his involvement in the bomb blast. He was sentenced to 200 years imprisonment.

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