Jaffna undergrad assaulted
May 18, 2012, 10:21 pmBy Madura Ranwala,the island
A Jaffna university student who was assaulted yesterday morning had been admitted to Jaffna hospital, police said.
Police spokesman SP Ajith Rohana said that a fourth year student of the Art’s Faculty and former secretary of the students’ union had been attacked at the Kalam junction in Jaffna around 8. 30 am by four unidentified persons who had arrived on two motorcycles.
A spokesman for the Jaffna Hospital police post said that the student, Dharshanan (24), was being treated for laceration injuries on the head and contusions on the body but his conditions was not serious.
According to some online media reports, the student was assaulted just before the commencement of the Mullivaikkal memorial event organised by the students, which he was scheduled to address.
SP Rohana said that the attackers had not been traced yet.
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