Puthoor is in the Jaffna district. Kannan was a three-wheel driver from Puthoor. He regularly drops a painter friend at his home after work. On 18 April, he was dropping this painter friend at his home as usual. Also in the three-wheeler were three more friends going for a fun ride. People at shop they passed saw the five friends packed inside the small three-wheeler going to drop the painter friend and they also saw four of the friends, less the painter, returning. People at the shop also saw SLA persons on motorbikes coming from behind the three-wheeler, stopping it and turning it back. At this time another person came on a bicycle stopped at the shop, bought some sugar and was riding back to his home in the same direction as the three-wheeler.
When Kannan did not return home that night, his father came looking for his son and saw his body and the three-wheeler on the road. Initially SLA refused anyone to go further to look for the rest of the friends. Eventually people were allowed to search and the bodies of the five people, four friends and the shopper, were recovered from the fields on the side of the road.
Names of victims (name, age)
1. Balasubramaniam Kannathasan, 27
2. Kandasamy Gowribalan, 32
3. Mahadevan Kishorkumar, 20
4. Sellappu Kamalathasan, 25
5. Thangarajah Kaveenthran, 27
