A high security alert for possible LTTE strikes in an immediate suburb to Colombo has led to the arrest of 14 people on suspicion, the police said Friday.
A joint army and police search was launched between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday at Nugegoda, a popular residential suburb east of here. 'Over 2,300 people, 40 vehicles and over 200 trade establishments were searched,' a police spokesman Jayantha Senewirathna said. Some 14 people including two Tamils and 12 Sinhalese were arrested, he added.
The search was conducted on information that the LTTE may carry out a bomb explosion in and around Nugegoda area.
Frequent and random searches of vehicles and people are common in the city in order to prevent infiltration of LTTE members from the north and east of the country.
The government claims that LTTE cadres are desperate for an attack in the capital after the troops had evicted them from Eastern Province.
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