Sri Lankan Navy destroys vessel carrying arms for LTTE

NEW DELHI, Oct 7 (KUNA) — Sri Lankan Navy Sunday destroyed a ship reportedly carrying arms for Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam off the country’s southern coast.
“The attack took place in the Indian Ocean, at the high seas off Dondra Head, of the southern coastal tip of Sri Lanka this morning,” a top official of Sri Lankan Navy told reporters in capital Colombo today, Press Trust of India reported.
“The Sri Lankan Navy had received credible information about the ship bound towards Sri Lanka and detected it,” the official said.
The Sri Lankan naval vessels comprising SLNS Sayura, SLNS Sagara, Fast Attack Vessel SLNS Suranimila and Rendezvous vessel 521 were engaged in today’s attack, the news agency said.
The Sri Lanka Defence Ministry today held a high-level meeting to assess the situation. The Navy has so far destroyed ten arms vessels of LTTE in recent months.
There was no immediate reaction from the LTTE on this morning’s attack.
In another incident, the Sri Lankan Army today seized a huge cache of arms during search operations in Vavuniya, the news agency reported. The seizure included 250 anti-personnel mines, 41 pieces of 60 mm mortar bombs, four anti-tank mines and T-56 assault rifles.
A series of clashes in Sri Lanka’s northern region yesterday claimed the lives of eight LTTE rebels and a government soldier.