Kfirs target school, injure three

by admin
Mar 28, 2007
Teachers and students took shelter in a bunker as their school was bombed.
Photo TamilNet
Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir bombers bombed a school in Chundikulam, Vadamaradchi East in Jaffna, on March 19, wounding a female teacher and two schoolboys.
Three bombs were dropped 25 meters from a class room of Chundikulam Vidyalayam. Two other schools, Aliyavalai Church Ceylon Tamil Mixed School and Uduthurai Mahavidyalayam, were also functioning at the site as they had been displaced from their original locations.
A bomb that hit a tree exploded in the air, wounding Kanapathipillai Nirojan, 11, attending 7th grade at Chundikulam Vidyalayam, Luxmikanthan Jegatheepan, 16, attending 9th grade. The teacher was identified as K. Sathiyavathy, 26.
Around 175 schoolchildren, 8 teachers and the principal of the school narrowly escaped injury or death.
Kfir bombers dropped bombs on the school at 9:45 and later at 11:45, when the children were attending their classes
A TamilNet correspondent who visited the site of the attack witnessed a second air strike at 11:45 a.m.
There are no military installations in the area populated by IDPs. IDPs and the villagers fled towards shrub jungles following the attack.
 

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