By NNN-PTI,
Colombo : Sri Lankan fighter jets targeted a construction site of the LTTE in rebel-stronghold Kilinochchi in northern Lanka as 27 Tamil Tigers and two security forces personnel were killed in intense clashes in the region, officials said Monday.
“According to the intelligence information provided by the troops of 57 division, Sri Lankan Air force MI-24 helicopters carried out a precise air sortie on an LTTE location situated in 04-km North East of Akkarayankulam tank in Kilinochchi Sunday afternoon,” the air force said.
“The particular target was a huge bund which was being newly constructed in the area,” it said, adding that intercepting to LTTE communications, troops confirmed that the heavy machines used for the constructions by the outfit were heavily damaged.
In ground clashes, the security forces gunned down one tiger rebel in Vedamakulam in Vavuniya, it said.
Meanwhile, Air Force troops conducted a search operation in Puvarasankulam in Vavuniya and recovered a huge cache of arms including 390 pieces of T-56 ammunitions.
While one LTTE cadre was killed in Akkarayankulam in Kilinochchi, two others were killed in the same area Sunday, the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) said.
At least three tiger rebels were gunned down in intense clashes with army troops in Kokavil in Kilinochchi Sunday, the military said.
In Manniyakulam in Kilinochchi, troops killed three tiger militants and wounded six others during clashes with LTTE, the MCNS said.