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Twenty-one (21) persons including seventeen (17) civilians were killed and over fifty five (55) believed injured in separate LTTE attacks at Kahawa, Vavuniya, Jaffna, Ampara, Batticaloa and Trincomalee during the past twenty four hours, claims security officials.

Twenty-one (21) persons including seventeen (17) civilians were killed and over fifty five (55) believed injured in separate LTTE attacks at Kahawa, Vavuniya, Jaffna, Ampara, Batticaloa and Trincomalee during the past twenty four hours, claims security officials.

Two renegade child soldiers of the LTTE terrorist outfit surrendered to the security forces at Polwatta, Valachchena- Batticaloa, on Saturday, the 06th of January at 04:00 p.m.

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LTTE terrorists lobbed A hand grenade at the Kurumankadu Police roadblock, on Saturday the 06thof January, at around 6.55 p.m. A Police constable sustained injuries in the attack.

COLOMBO: Suspected rebels in Sri Lanka shot dead seven civilians and security forces discovered a truck packed with powerful explosives, the country’s defence ministry said yesterday.

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Jaffna District magistrate T. Vignarajah directed the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Jaffna Commander Maj. Gen. G. A. Chandrasiri to take care in safeguarding the evidences found at the site of killings in the Jaffna peninsula, when Jaffna police notified the magistrate that evidence material related to the killings of two fuel station employees gunned down by unidentified armed men at Temple road Friday …

Four people from Serunuwara, a 16-year-old youth from Siththaandi, Eastern Sri Lanka were also shot and killed by the unidentified gunmen within the government control area. The gunmen got away with these crimes where Sri Lankan military maintain strong present in and around the area.

A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldier was found with gunshot injuries within his camp located at Polikandi coastal village in Vadamaraadchi north Friday night, SLA sources in Point Pedro said. The Officer-in-charge of the camp said in his statement to Point Pedro police that the trooper was distraught over not being granted leave, and had shot himself dead.

Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers launched artillery, multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) and motor attacks targeting the Pu’liyangku’lam-Oamanthai checkpoint, the entry point to the LTTE administered Vanni region, between 12:15 p.m. and 1:15 p.m. Friday, sources in Vanni said. The attacks disrupted passenger traffic to and from Liberation Tigers controlled area through the checkpoint, according to …

The satellite TV channel The Buddhist , inaugurated by the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo on Friday, would be a celebration of the ancient cultural and religious ties between Sri Lanka and India, a top Sri Lankan official said.

Suspected rebels in Sri Lanka shot dead seven civilians and security forces discovered a truck packed with powerful explosives, the country’s defence ministry said on Saturday.

Four Moothoor farmers and Dr.Pakkiyasothy Saravanamuthu, Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), a Colombo-based think-tank, Friday filed fundamental rights petitions in the Supreme Court seeking the court to order the Sri Lanka Government’s declaration of traditional paddy lands in Moothoor and Sampoor as high security zones null and void, legal sources in Colombo said.

Unidentified gunmen on two motor cycles, following two men riding their motor cycles, shot them dead Friday around 4:30 p.m., in front of Tamils Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) former office close to UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, ICRC offices in Temple Road in the heart of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) High Security Zone (HSZ) in Jaffna, sources in Jaffna said. SLA troopers are present 24 hours guarding several …

Suspected rebels in Sri Lanka shot dead three civilians and the security forces discovered a truck packed with powerful explosives, the country’s defence ministry said on Saturday.

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s navy said “U found about 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of explo¹Bves in a truck and arrested a person nearby, in whatmay have been a planned attack by Tamil Tiger rebels.

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s navy said “U found about 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of explo¹Bves in a truck and arrested a person nearby, in whatmay have been a planned attack by Tamil Tiger rebels.

COLOMBO, 30 (EP/AP) La Marina de Sri Lanka informó ayer del hallazgo de cerca de 1.000 kilogramos de explosivos en el interior de un camión, así como de la detención de una persona que se encontraba cerca del lugar, que podría estar relacionado con un intento de atentado de los rebeldes tamiles.

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