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Five killed in Sri Lankan violence

B. Muralidhar Reddy

COLOMBO: At least five persons were killed in Sri Lanka as an ambulance came under claymore mine attack on Tuesday night in the east amidst continuing fight between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

On Tuesday, three hours after the LTTE claimed to have lifted the waterway blockade in the east, Colombo claimed that its engineers, backed by the army, opened the sluice gates of the blocked irrigation canal.

TamilNet reported that a doctor, his wife, two nurses and the driver of the ambulance belonging to Nedunkerni hospital, run by the LTTE, were killed when army men attacked the vehicle.

Narrow escape

It said a bus with 75 passengers narrowly escaped another claymore attack on Wednesday, 10 km from Nedunkerni ambush site. The attack on the ambulance took place when Kathirkamathamby Jeyamalina (68), the only doctor in the Nedunkerni area, was returning with his wife and staff to Nedunkerni hospital after attending to a pregnant mother at another hospital.

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