Seven LTTEers killed

Ranil Wijayapala

COLOMBO: Seven suspected LTTE cadres travelling in two threewheelers after launching a hand grenade attack on Security Forces at a military checkpoint near Nelliadi were killed yesterday as the hand grenades inside the threewheelers exploded when the Army fired at them, Military sources said.

According to sources, two soldiers at the Nelliadi Army detachment were injured when a hand grenade lobbed at the Army detachment by suspected LTTE cadres travelling in these two threewheelers around 2.30 p.m. yesterday exploded.

The Security Forces on being informed of the attack blocked the two fleeing threewheelers at Navindil camp and fired at them.

"A huge explosion inside the second threewheeler killed on seven LTTE cadres", a senior military official told the Daily News. Meanwhile, Security Forces in Chavakachcheri recovered claymore mine weighing 10 kilograms set to target Security Forces in Chavakachcheri, sources added.

Two homeguards were killed and two others injured when the LTTE detonated a cluster of claymore mines in Aranthalawa yesterday morning, sources added.