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Lanka jets attack LTTE base
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ASIANAGE on 10 October, 2008 02:49:18
 
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI
Colombo
Oct. 10: Sri Lankan fighter jets pounded a Tamil Tiger suicide bombers’ camp
deep in the embattled north on Friday, a day after a suicide attack blamed on
the rebels killed two people and wounded five near the capital, the military
said. The airstrike on the camp for the suicide bombers, known as Black Tigers,
in the rebel stronghold of Kilinochchi came during an intensified government
offensive against the rebels de facto state in the north. Officials have pledged
to crush the rebels by the end of 2008.
Also on Friday, Air Force jets bombed a rebel communication centre and hide-out
used by senior rebel leaders in Kilinochchi, said Air Force spokesman wing
commander Janaka Nanayakkara. He said pilots confirmed the attacks were
successful, but details of damage and casualties were not immediately available.
On Thursday, a suspected rebel suicide bomber blew herself up near a convoy
carrying a senior Sri Lankan Cabinet minister, killing two bystanders and
wounding the minister’s deputy. Maithripala Sirisena, the agricultural
development minister, was not hurt in the blast in Boralwegamuwa, about 15
kilometres from the capital, Colombo, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara
said.
Mr Sirisena’s junior minister, Siripala Gamlath, was wounded, Mr Nanayakkara
said, blaming Tamil Tigers for the blast. On Monday, a suicide blast blamed on
the rebels killed a former Army general, Janaka Perera, and 26 others in the
northern town of Anuradhapura. The rebels, banned as a terrorist group in the
United States and European Union, did not comment. —AP