UNP parliamentarian Mohammed Mashroof is assassinated along with his driver and 4 year old son.
Source
Human Rights Watch World Report: Sri Lanka, 1998.
Extract
“On July 20, Mohammed Mashroof of the UNP together with five others, including Mashroof’s driver and the driver’s four-year-old son, were killed when gunmen thought to be the LTTE opened fire on his jeep. The UNP group had been on its way to meet the families of forty-one villagers from Irakakkandy who had been abducted by the LTTE on July 2.” Human Rights Watch World Report: Sri Lanka, 1998.
