LTTE continues attacks on army in Ampaarai

by admin
Feb 17, 2009
16 Sri Lankan troopers have been killed in Ampaarai district in the east in three separate incidents since the beginning of this month, according to Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sources.

In the latest incident, on Saturday, February 14, a bomb explosion in Kanchikudichchaanaaru area in Ampaarai killed more than 12 Special Task Force (STF) commandos including their officer at a site where preparations were being made to lay the foundation stone for a Buddhist Vihare, according to Ampaarai district LTTE.
 
The sources confirmed the killing of more than 12 STF commandos and injury to many other commandos.

STF launched a large scale search operation at the site of the explosion, residents of the area said. The bomb blast was heard over a distance of many miles.

A day earlier, LTTE combatants killed a STF commando and seriously injured another in a direct confrontation in Lagugala area in Ampaarai district, according to LTTE sources.
 
Few days earlier, on Monday, February 9, three STF commandos were killed and the tractor in which they were transporting military hardware from Ukanthai to Paanama, was destroyed.
 
 In January LTTE fighters killed 17 STF commandos and injured at least 5 in separate incidents across the Ampaarai district.

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