Judicial services were also disrupted as workers did not report to work after Peoples Uprising Front (PUF –Ponyeru Makkal Padei ) distributed leaflets demanding an strike action.

Journalist RG Dharmadasa says, however, health and education services were allowed to carry on as usual by the organisers.

Trincomalee District Secretary TTR de Silva said 30% of the office work has been disrupted due to the strike.

PUF, allegedly linked to the Tamil Tigers, have called the strike after unidentified group abducted Selvaraja Gajanathan, Co-operative Development Officer of the Muttur division near Kattaparichchan Army camp.

The LTTE has make a formal comaplint to the truce monitors that Gajanathan’s body has been dumped in Government-controlled Palaenagar.

But the monitors said they did not find any body in the area.