Along the A-9

The Security Forces marked another path breaking achievement yesterday when they opened the Jaffna- Kandy A-9 road which lasted under the LTTE grip for 24 years, for troop movement.
The occasion was celebrated with 400 troops from Jaffna reaching Anuradhapura and another 400 troops from Anuradhapura reaching Jaffna along the A-9 road.

Twenty buses with 400 troops started off through the newly liberated area of the A-9 road at 9.04 am after an official function at Elephant Pass with the participation of Jaffna Security Forces Commander Major General Mendaka Samarasinghe and other high ranking officials of the Security Forces in Jaffna. The Maha Sangha blessed the Forces’ personnel by chanting pirith.

Pictures by Rukmal Gamage