Navy transports another 1000 civilians to Trinco
TRINCOMALEE: One thousand civilians from Jaffna reached Trincomalee
on Tuesday under the protection of the Sri Lanka Navy disregarding the
LTTE terrorist threat on civilians, a Navy Spokesman told the Daily News
yesterday.
The Spokesman said Jet Liner carrying 1,000 civilians from Jaffna
reached Trincomalee safely Tuesday morning. So far the Navy had
transported 11,086 civilians from and to Jaffna peninsula after the
closure of the A-9 road in August last year.
The LTTE has made several abortive attempts to disrupt the civilian
transportation by ships to exert more pressures on the Government for
the opening of the A-9 road to Jaffna since it had become a disadvantage
for them.
(RW)
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