Army headquarters said that 15 female
students had disappeared in the Jaffna peninsula.
A senior army official accused the LTTE of
abducting them.
Following the army making representations to
the Jaffna based Scandinavian truce monitors, the LTTE political
office in Jaffna had been searched. Parents of the disappeared
too had accused the LTTE of carrying out the abductions. (NP)
