Sri Lanka: Intense Fighting kills 10 SF Injures 20 in Manaar

Sunday, 24 February 2008

Mannaar - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan security forces (SF) clashed when SF troopers tried to advance into the LTTE heal Adampan area through Paalakulli area using tanks, heavy artillery and mortars on Sunday morning. LTTE repulsed the attacks and at least 10 SF troopers were killed and 20 SF troopers sustained severe injuries, according rebel sources in Mannaar.

The SF troopers used heavy artillery fire, tanks, air cover and mortars but faced the stiff resistance from LTTE cadres and SF troopers incurred heavy losses and retreated to their original positions and LTTE captured many warlike items from the SF troopers, informed sources from rebels said.

Meanwhile, 2 Pillaiyan group government aligned paramilitary members were killed when an unknown attacker with a hidden explosive triggered the device. The attack took place in Kalluvaagnchchikkudi in Batticola in the eastern Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan government recently unilaterally scrapped the truce pact which was signed between the LTTE and the GoSL in February 2002 under the Norway mediation.

The civil war in Sri Lanka killed at least 80,000 people while half a million people internally displaced and over million people externally displaced. At least 5,800 people have been killed in last two years alone, a right group said.

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