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Five Tamil Dead bodies found dumped in Sri Lanka Capital Colombo - apparent execution-style killing |
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 Bodies of five Tamil persons were recovered from Mutturajawela marshy land in Kandana police division north of Colombo, Friday and Saturday. Three bodies were recovered on Friday and two more on Saturday, police said.
Some of the bodies were found blindfolded and were in highly decomposed state, Kandana Police said.
Police suspect that these bodies had been brought and dumped in the marshy land after being executed in other areas.
The bodies are yet to be identified, police said.
AFP Says
The bodies of five men shot in the head with their hands tied together and blindfolded were found Saturday by Sri Lankan police, who called the deaths an apparent "execution-style killing".
The grisly find in a marsh at Kandana, 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of the capital, was made after a child spied one of the bodies in the marsh, a police spokesman said.
"We suspect the men may have been killed about a week ago and dumped there," the spokesman said, adding forensic tests would be carried out later on Saturday.
"We don't know who the victims are," the spokesman said, adding that the men had their hands tied behind their backs and were blindfolded.
"It appears to be an execution-style killing," the spokesman said.
Both local and international human rights activists have said abductions and killings are rampant in Sri Lanka amid an escalation of fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in a 35-year-old ethnic conflict.
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