LTTE suffers heavy losses

A total of 15 LTTE terrorists were killed and 2 were reported injured due to confrontations in Vavuniya and Mannar areas on Monday.

On Monday around 7.35 am in Wedamalai area one LTTE terrorist was killed due to troop's attacks.

In the same area around 12.55 p.m. two LTTE carders were killed in confrontations. In another situation in Periyapandirichan area around 12.40 p.m. and 1.55 p.m. two soldiers were reported killed and two were injured in confrontations.

Meanwhile in Manthottam, Mannar two LTTE terrorists were killed in confrontations. In the same area one soldier was reported injured in confrontations and two soldiers were injured due to an Anti Personnel mine blast. Six LTTE terrorists were reported killed and one soldier was injured in confrontations at Andakulam, Welioya around 3.20 p.m.

According to latest reports from defence sources the fighting in North has resulted in 39 terrorist deaths on Sunday One soldier was also killed while others sustained injuries during the clashes, sources further said.

In the Jaffna theatre of battle, troops attacked LTTE bunkers and engaged artillery and heavy mortar fire at the LTTE defences in the Muhamalai and Kilaly areas during the daytime yesterday. According to ground sources 05 terrorists were killed in these incidents.

Also, one soldier suffered injuries during the terrorists' retaliatory fire and was admitted to the Palaly base hospital.

In a separate incident, snipers deployed in the Kilaly area claimed that one terrorist was killed around 11.50, last afternoon.

In the Wanni theatre of battle, troops conducted limited offensives in the Vavuniya, Mannar and Welioya battlefronts giving heavy beating to the terrorists. On the Vavuniya front, troops engaged the terrorists in the Periyapantrichchurichchan, Koilmoddai, and Kallikulam areas during the course of the day. Ground troops confirmed that 24 terrorists were killed in these battles.

In the Mannar theatre of battle, troops attacked terrorist positions in the Madhu area in two separate incidents killing 7 terrorists during the day.

Meanwhile on the Welioya front, terrorists' radio transmissions revealed that two terrorists were killed and another injured in a confrontation that took place in the area west of Janakapura on the same day evening.

Military sources from Jaffna and Wanni confirmed that during the last four days 132 LTTE terrorists have been killed and over 50 others injured during the clashes.