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Nov 25, Colombo: The Canadian officials have found more traces of explosives on Princess Easwary which brought 76 Sri Lankan Tamils to Canada last month, Canada Border Services Agency revealed.
The traces of RDX, which is used to make plastic explosives, especially for military has been found in three separate compartments of the ship, sources further added.
Residues of another two types of explosives have also been discovered on clothing of two migrants and they have been taken in to the custody by Canadian immigration officials.
The Canadian terrorist experts have alleged that at least two of them belong to the Tamil Tigers, the military arm of the violent separatist group that waged a three decade long war with the Sri Lankan government.
According to the Sri Lanka's Defense Ministry sources the Princess Easwary belongs to Ravi Shankar Kanagarajah alias Shangili, a most wanted transnational terrorist cum kingpin of overseas based human trafficking and illegal arms smuggling activist.
The ship is an LTTE floating warehouse extensively used in human smuggling and gunrunning activities, a terrorism expert said.
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