Scotland Yard in SL to probe Tamil MP's killing

Thursday, January 4, 2007, 12:09 [IST]

Colombo, Jan 4: A team of Scotland Yard detectives are arriving in Colombo today to assist in the investigation into the assassination of the Jaffna district parliamentarian of the four-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA), Nadarajah Raviraj, in November last year, Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

''A five-member Scotland Yard delegation is arriving today to assist the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in probing the assassination of TNA MP N Raviraj,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman, M A Hassan told UNI

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