The election monitoring group, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), today confirmed reports that the vehicle of the TNA candidate Sajanthan was fired on Saturday, whilst outside the polling booth in Varani, in Jaffna district.
According to CaFFE the incident took place just opposite the army camp.
See here for account by Sajanthan on ColomboTelegraph.
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