Information About Incident 59563-118957-300893 in Batticaloa Sri Lanka

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Three people, all Muslims from the Kathankudy area, were arrested alongside printed material which had been used to issue death threats on candidates, a police spokesman in the Batticaloa district told Xinhua on February 19.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Kathankudy Batticaloa
• Matched District: Batticaloa
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: alongside printed material which had been used to issue death threats on candidates
• Subject: all Muslims from the Kathankudy area ,

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Three people, all Muslims from the Kathankudy area, were arrested alongside printed material which had been used to issue death threats on candidates, a police spokesman in the Batticaloa district told Xinhua on February 19. The candidates from the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal party had complained of death threats received allegedly from the LTTE. The Batticaloa district is scheduled to hold elections on March 10 to appoint local councillors to nine local councils.

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.

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