Mannaar - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan security forces (SF) clashed in Mannar, Vavuniya and Manalaaru area when SF troopers tried to advance into the LTTE held area using tanks, heavy artillery and mort. LTTE repulsed all the attacks on all three fronts and at least 5 SF troopers were killed and 23 SF troopers sustained severe injuries, according rebel sources.

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.

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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