A suspected Tamil Tiger rebel yesterday fatally shot a member of a pro-government Tamil group in the island nation's northeast, the military said. Wijedasan Wijendran, 25, was shot and killed in Trincomalee by a suspected member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, military spokesman Brig Daya Ratnayake said. The victim was a member of the Eelam People's Democratic Party, a Tamil group that has joined the federal government in Colombo. Security was stepped up in the area after the killing, but there was no report of any arrests.