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Sri Lanka: SL Navy attacks refugee-boat in Mannaar sea, 4 said killed

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Thursday, 18 October 2007
Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) gunboats Thursday morning opened fire on a boat with fleeing refugees from Naachchikkudaa, 55 km north of Mannaar to Tamil Nadu, India, in the seas off Peasaalai. Four civilians, all belonging to a single family, were believed killed. A mother and two children with serious injuries have been brought to Mannaar hospital, 5 hours after the attack.

The children were in unconsious state when they were admitted at the hospital.

7 civilians were in the boat, according to initial reports.

The attack took place around 4:30 a.m. Thursday in the seas off Peasaalai.

The SLN has claimed that the civilian boat was caught in cross-fire.

Naachchikkudaa is a coastal village located 55 km north of Mannaar in Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) controlled Ki'linochchi district.

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Geronimo said:


Friday, 19 October 2007

dailynews
ONLINE

Tiger bid to reach Pesalai from Vidattaltivu foiled
Rafik Jalaldeen

The Navy foiled an LTTE bid to reach Pesalai from Vidattaltivu in a cluster of boats in the seas off Mannar early yesterday. Four LTTE cadres were killed and three others captured alive during the confrontation, Navy spokesman Commander D.P.K. Dassanayake said.

The Navy Inshore Patrol Craft had detected the cluster of boats moving suspiciously towards Pesalai North from Vidattaltivu around 4.30 a.m.

??The Naval IPCs detected strong echoes on its radar and moved to apprehend the movements in restricted waters,? Commander Dassanayake said.

The Naval patrol had come under LTTE attack. ??When the Naval patrol approached the suspicious boats, it drew fire from the boats to IPCs. A firefight erupted for 30 minutes in the sea,? he added.

He reiterated that the Naval patrol successfully repulsed the Tiger attack and facing defeat, LTTE boats retreated in their boats to Vidattaltivu leaving a boat.

Following the incident, Naval patrol launched a search operation and spotted a drifting dingy boat fixed to two out mortars. ??Four bodies and three LTTEers were found in the drifting boat. The three survivors were handed over to the Thalaimannar police,? the Commander said.


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To all, the above is in todays Security column of the Daily News--a Sinhalese-run paper from Colombo.
I have cut&pasted because the SL Navy is now suddenly changing its story once it became clear that it had killed an innocent family and not a sea tiger unit; all Sinhalese-owned paper are also suddenly modifying their posts too. Look out Daily News might change their post too!
2007-10-19 04:07:25

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