The Sri Lanka Army has claimed that at least 20 cadres of the Tamil Tigers were killed and five others injured in the past 24 hours as the fighting spread to the north.
"The Tiger cadres were killed while "attempting to breach the forward defences" in different locations in the Wanni area", an english daily reported here quoting official sources.
"LTTE casualties would go up as infiltrating terrorist elements drew heavy gun fire from the troops at the Wanni forward defences." "The moves by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) units that attempted to move into the liberated territory from Periya Panchan and Thampanai were successfully thwarted by the security forces", it claimed.
Separately the Presidential Secretariat said the police have agreed to obtain the assistance of "recognized Citizens' Committees" in recording complaints by the public in several districts of the Northern and Eastern Provinces, beginning with Mannar district.
In another development, the LTTE alleged that five civilians were abducted by the Karuna group and the army in Batticaloa two weeks ago.
It said members from the Karuna group and the army came to the houses of these civilians and took them away.
(http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/aug/04/20_cadres_tamil_tigers_killed_sri_lanka.html)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment