International   

Pitched battles in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan military on Friday claimed to have inflicted heavy damages on the LTTE in ground fighting and aerial raids on “identified” targets in the north amid pitched battles along the Forward Defence Lines (FDLs). The Defence Ministry said naval troops in a “special operation” destroyed an LTTE hide-out in the Peraru Jungles and recovered a large cache of arms and ammunition. “The LTTE hide-out, located 6 km west of Nilaweli had been frequented by the LTTE cadres hiding in the jungle. Around 50 LTTE cadres who fled Thoppigala are suspected to be trapped in the Peraru Jungles.”

Separately, infantrymen continued their “thrust” into the LTTE dominated areas in the south of Adampan and heavy clashes were reported at a bunker defence manned by LTTE. The Ministry claimed that troops had destroyed seven LTTE bunkers killing at least nine cadres.

In a statement posted on its website, the LTTE alleged that the Air Force bombed a civilian settlement near Kilinochchi town on Friday killing a civilian.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Pakistan lawyers plan to revive court boycott
Fossil skull offers clue to origins of Chinese people
Pakistan test-fires ballistic missile
Pitched battles in Sri Lanka
How it happened
Gates’ gesture to rice farmers
260 Indian nationals face deportation

Copyright © 2008, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu