Sunday, April 5, 2009

Two LTTE suspects arrested in Chennai

Four people, including two believed to be Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka, were arrested on Saturday, Tamil Nadu Police sources said. The four were arrested from the southeastern suburb of Thiruvanmiyur early in the morning and were being questioned by the Q branch - the anti-extremism wing of the police, they said.
The four men were identified as Jayanthan, 27, Guhan, 24, Jayanathan, 29 and Babu, 29. It wasn’t immediately clear who the two Tamil Tigers were. They were nabbed for their activities relating to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), police said.
The arrests come even as police said Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had received a death threat letter suspected to be from the LTTE following which security for him has been tightened.