LTTE suicide killer exploded a bomb, targeting SL Airforce camp at Pettah..2 died and 35 injured...

A suspected man, related with Pettah suicide attack,was arrested .. Undeleted scenes..

Sirasa Attack

Five people were injured when a hand grenade was hurled by Tamil Hindu extremists at the Husseiniya Mosque in Kattankudy around 7.15 PM on the 25 or October 2008. This occured during evening (Isa) prayer. The injured are admitted at the Batticaloa General Hospital for treatment. The Kattankudy Police is conducting investigation into this incident. The injured victims are : 1. Mohamed Ansar - 60 2. Mohamed Saleem - 31 3. Kachchi Mohamed - 55 4. Mohamed Ahsan - 17 5. Mohamed Asanar - 45

Updated on Saturday, June 21st 2008; 21:30 Hrs. SST (16:00 Hrs. GMT) The Sri Lanka Air Force has launched an air raid on a vehicle yard of the LTTE terrorists. Air Force Spokesman Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara said it was located about two kilometres North of Aandankulam in Mannar. The Air raid was carried out at around 12.30 this afternoon. Air pilots confirmed that the entire location was set alight in this raid. The Air Force Spokesman further said the raid was undertaken in support of the ground troops advancing in the Mannar front.

The Air Force has raided three identified LTTE targets in Pooneryn and Mulaitivu.

Another SLRC employee attacked by thugs Mr. Anurasiri Hettige, President of Rupavahini Employees Trade Union was attacked by thugs at Kotikawatta area in Colombo today at about 7.45 a.m. The attack had been carried out by two thugs when Mr. Hettige was at a bus halt on his way to work. Mr. Hettige has been admitted to Intensive Care Unit of Colombo National Hospital with serious head injuries. Yesterday Mr. Hettige participated in a discussion with Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse at the Defense Ministry on security threat for Rupavahini employees. At this discussion held with the participation of representatives of all trade unions in Rupavahini Corporation, Defense Secretary, Chairman of SLRC Ariyaratne Athugala, Director General of SLRC Sisira Kotalawala and media spokesman for Police Department, the Defense Secretary gave an assurance that security for Rupavahini employees would be beefed up. Within 24 hours of this assurance a leader of the trade unions of SLRC was subjected to a ruthless attack by thugs. Mr. Hettige is the third SLRC employee attacked by thugs since Mervin Silva, Labour Minister of this government was detained temporarily by employees of SLRC when he with several of his thugs broke into the corporation to intimidate the news editor for not telecasting a speech he had made. Minister Silva and his thugs were given a dose of their own medicine by employees of SLRC and commandos had to be called in to rescue the minister and his thugs. Meanwhile, Special Task Force (STF) has been deployed to Rupavahini to provide security as employees have boycotted work in protest over the continuing assault on employees of SLRC.

ආරක්ෂක අංශ පැවසුවේ කොටියන් විසින් ඊයේ රාත්‍රී කැළණිතිස්ස විදුලි බලාගාරයට බෝම්බ දෙකක් හෙළා තිබෙන බවයි. විදුලි බල හා බලශක්ති අමාත්‍ය ඩබ්ලිව්.ඩී.ජේ සෙනෙවිරත්න අද පැවසුවේ මින් එක් බෝම්බයක් විදුලිය ජනනය කරන තලබමනය සිසිල් කරන පද්ධතියට වැටී තිබෙන බවත් අනික ගොඩනැගිල්ලක ඉහළ මාලයට වැටී තිබෙන බවයි. එම බෝම්බය ගොඩනැගිල්ලේ කොන්ක්‍රීට් තට්ටුවද හිල් කරගෙන බිමට වැටී පිපිරී තිබෙන බව මූලික පරීක්ෂණ වලදී තහවුරු වූ බව අමාත්‍යවරයා කීය.

Progress of Wanni theatre of operations - (Updated on 4 August 2008)

Twenty seven civilians were killed in a claymore blast in Okkampitiya yesterday morning. Another 63 persons including 10 children were injured as the CTB bus they were travelling in was caught by the LTTE claymore explosion.