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AIRFORCE RETALIATES BY BOMBING LTTE HEAVY WEAPONS CENTER THAT KILLED ONE CIVILIAN AND INJURED 4 VILLAGERS

By Walter Jayawardhana

Sri Lanka Army sources said that the country’s Air Force bombed and destroyed a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) train center close to Nedunkerni from where mortar attacks have been targeted on a Sinhalese ethnic village killing one civilian.

“ The training Center of LTTE cadres also had heavy weapons which were used to attack Etha Wetuna Wewa killing one and injuring four others including an infant of two and half years old,” said Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe .

The army spokesman said the bombing target was carefully selected only to destroy the military installation and the center was in the LTTE controlled Mulativu District South of Nedunkerni. He also said the LTTE maintained an armory of heavy weapons at the center. The aerial attack occurred at 6.40 a.m.August 13.

On the previous daySri Lanka Army sources said that the LTTE killed one and injured four more civilians in an attack on a Sinhalese ethnic village called Etha Wetuna Wewa, near Weli Oya in the besieged Northern Province of Sri Lanka.

The BBC Sinhala language service said the deceased has been identified as B.G. Premadasa (64) who died instantly after the mortar attack.
Earlier the LTTE has killed Home Guards by attacks but this is the first time they killed a civilian on the attacks of this villages.

Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe , the military spokesman said the LTTE fired two 120 mm mortars into the village and one hit a civilian house about 7.30 a.m. August 12.

A 2 years and six months old infant and the infants mother were severely injured in the attack and admitted to the Anuradhapura Hospital. The severe injuries and the death was caused by a mortar shell that hit the house of H.Thilakaratne who was also injured but not so severely. A woman on her way to the house also has been hurt. All injured are admitted in the same hospital.

Sources said the other mortar shell hit an abandoned piece of land close to the government school of the village.

Villagers said the LTTE is attacking the village as it is in the forward Defence Line between the Sri Lanka government occupied area. They have appealed to the army to chase out the Tamil Tigers from the adjacent Sinhala villages they are now occupying so that the civilians could not be targeted by the LTTE easily. They said for the last three months there had been constant mortar attacks on the village

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