Three days later, masked men dragged fisherman Innasie Francis from his home at Karuveppankerni and shot him dead on the road. According to local sources, the victim s nephew is a LTTE member and the military-aligned Razik Group is suspected to be involved. The Army hunted for Tigers on 14 August at Arayampathy, two miles south of Batticaloa town, and ordered all residents to assemble at the local school for interrogation. Fear pervades Trincomalee District also, because of continuing killings. The bodies of Sampur residents T Sivakumar, S Gunarasa and S Manickarasa were found in Anaikalkulam on 19 August.
Relatives say they had been brutally tortured before being killed.
A shell fired on a house in Sampur on the same day killed V Nallammah and wounded six others. These refugees had earlier fled to India, and had been living in Allesthottam since their return to the island. Ship services to Jaffna were disrupted after the Princess Kash incident near Mullaitivu on 14 August. Trincomalee regional secretary V Velum Mayilum says the ship Lanka Muditha left for Jaffna on 2 September with 1,047 people including 607 refugees.