LTTE hold 300 patients hostage

ICRC and UN officials, who went to Puthukkudiyiruppu area to fetch some three hundred patients to be transferred to Vavuniya Hospital for further treatment were refused and turned away by Tiger terrorists yesterday afternoon while holding all those patients captive as ‘human shields’.

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Forces advance towards Puthukudurippu

Commander of the 59 Division, Brigadier Nandana Udawatta yesterday said Troops advancing from the north of Mullativu town yesterday succeeded in capturing a stretch of 2 kilometres amidst stiff resistance by LTTE terrorists.

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Clarification

Boat washed ashore at Rameswaram had nothing to do with Sea Tigers - SLN

With reference to our news story titled ‘Sea Tigers may have entered Tamil Nadu’ based on an Express News Service report published in this page on Monday, January 26, 2009, the Sri Lanka Navy informs us that it was a fishing boat owned by Hameed Sultan Masaheer of Kalpitiya which had left for fishing on January 23 and has no connection with Sea Tigers.

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