June 29, Jaffna: The two leading Tamil dailies in Jaffna, Udayan and Sudar Oli are forced to stop publication from tomorrow as an obscure group has threatened the staff.

Sources at the two newspapers said that a group described itself as "National Tamil Alliance" has threatened them to stop selling the newspapers in Jaffna from tomorrow.

The group has told the staff of the two newspapers to resign with effect from tomorrow or face death.

The officials of the newspapers have already lodged a complaint at the Jaffna police over the issue.

This was the second time within a week that these two newspapers were threatened by the "National Tamil Alliance".