Police used water cannons to disperse a group of university students from the Jaffna University and a group of parents of the disappeared, who staged a protest at Arasadi Junction in Jaffna today.

They had attempted to march towards Nallur from the Jaffna University when the police dispersed them at the Arasadi Junction.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe had visited Jaffna today to participate in the National Thai Pongal Ceremony.