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IN A WAVE OF CLAYMORE BOMB ATTACKS LTTE KILLS 2 AND INJURES 11

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in a deadly wave of claymore mine explosions killed two government troops and injured 11 others seriously.

All claymore mines were detonated inside areas in the Northern and Eastern provinces as demarcated as Government of Sri Lanka territory in violation of the ceasefire agreement both sides have vowed to protect.

All explosions , July 17, killed a Sri Lanka Navy Sub lieutenant and a Sri Lanka Army private respectively in Trincomalee and Jaffna.

The government troops are being constantly attacked while the government is under constant pressure by Sri Lanka’s giant neighbor India and Western nations like the United States not to retaliate and strike at the origin of the terrorist attacks, the LTTE military camps.

Sub lieutenant Kumar was killed later in a hospital and four others were injured at Salli Sambanthivu in Trincomalee when this troop of sailors were returning after picket duties , and crossing a stream using a boat . The terrorists knew the exact time they would return as usual and detonated a claymore mine injuring the whole party near Salli Amman temple.

The Tamil Tigers also killed Private Anura Krishantha at another claymore bomb explosion near Sivam Kovil in Jaffna on Jaffna Point Pedro road when they allegedly exploded another claymore mine targeting soldiers using bicycles carrying lunch packets to other soldiers on duty. The LTTE controlled Tamil Net revealed the claymore mine was attached to a parked bicycle on the road. In this explosion three soldiers and three civilians were badly injured.

In another claymore mine attack at Ulliyan kulam in Mannar one soldier on road clearing duties was injured.Army spokesman Brigadier Pradeep Samarasinghe said that two of the attacks have been planned near temples so that civilians could be killed in whatever clash that could happen after the attack.

An army soldier was seriously injured at Janakapura when he became a victim of a sniper attack from the LTTE controlled area. The soldier with head injuries was later airlifted to the national Hospital in Colombo.

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