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COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan military on Tuesday claimed to have marched 3 km further into the Silavattura area in Mannar district in the north and said its troops had reached Kondachchi. It said the LTTE had an important base in Silavattura till last week end. It came under the military control after it launched a "humanitarian mission" to rescue hundreds of civilians fleeing the LTTE-controlled territory. The Defence Ministry said the soldiers "consolidating their defences in [the] recently liberated Silavattura in the South of Mannar" recovered a large haul of military hardware, including a suicide boat. Among the items listed were one boat earmarked for suicide operations, three claymore mines, two T-56 riffles, and 40 kg of TNT high explosives, 482 anti-personnel mines, a large amount of ammunitions, 25 dinghy boats, 25 outboard motors ( 25 HP) and one 40 HP outboard motor. TamilNet in a report questioned the military's claims and said the Silavattura area was not under the effective control of either party. Military spokesperson Prasad Samarasinghe told media that the road from Mannar to Kalpitiya could be opened soon after being cleared by the troops. The military said two LTTE cadres were killed in an "army retaliatory attack" in Sittandikudi on Tuesday. Separately, the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) claimed that the troops had successfully foiled an LTTE attempt to attack the Thapanai Forward Defence Line in the north. It said a body of an LTTE cadre along with a communication set, nine "code sheets" and a belt order were recovered in subsequent search operations. It said so far 420 anti-personnel mines had been recovered in various locations in Kandapperumakulam and Thampanai.
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