An LTTE leader and his deputy were arrested by the anti-terrorist unit of the Vavuniya Police, while they were in the company of a young pregnant girl, according to reports from Vavuniya Police.

Identified as Keenan and Kannawan, they were arrested at Pesalai in Mannar. When Police arrested them they were in possession of two claymore mines, two T-56 weapons, five magazines and 142 rounds of ammunition.

One of them was a LTTE leader of Pammpaimadu and when he was arrested he was in the company of a 13-year-old girl who Police said was pregnant. The other LTTE cadre was in the company of an 18-year-old girl. Both girls in their statement to Police had said that they were abducted and forcibly kept by the two LTTE cadres.

All four have been detained by the Vavuniya anti-terrorist unit and are being interrogated.