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Sri Lanka government's air raid against Tamil Tigers

Colombo, Sri Lanka - At least six dead soldiers and seven injured

In answer to a guerrilla attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) - commonly known as the Tamil Tigers - against a post of regular army soldiers (which caused in South-Western Sri Lanka and particularly in Thoppigala the wounding of seven and the death of at least six of them), the government of Colombo sent military airplanes to Tamil posts in Mannar. The agency "Misna" referred the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1076497
Rome, Italy, 07/06/2007 18:18
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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