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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) launched heavy artillery fire from Friday around 8 :00 p.m till around 7 :50 a.m Saturday targetting civilian settlements, public buildings and roads in Ki’linochchi town, destroying several houses. Though thousands of people have left Ki’linochchi area to escape the artillery fire and Mulit-barrel Rocket Launcher attacks, many residents still remain reluctant to leave their houses.

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Three unidentified armed men arriving on motor cycles at the house of a trader in Vavu?natheevu police division in Batticaloa disrict Friday around 7:30 p.m shot and killed the trader. Many Special Task Force (STF) camps and police stations are located in this area.

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Four Tamil youths were arrested Friday night while they were waiting for bus in Gampola bus stand to go their estate in Pupuressa in Gampola district. Police said they were questioned by the police on seeing their suspicious movement in the bus stand, and were arrested as they failed to provide satisfactory reason for their stay in the bus stand.

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Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) Ampaa’rai Command claimed Saturday that 2 Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) commandos were killed and one wounded Friday evening in a LTTE land mine ambush on a STF patrol in Kagnchikudichchaa’ru. On Saturday morning. The Tigers said an STF commando was killed Saturday morning in a booby trap explosion while an STF unit was engaged in a search operation in the same area Saturday morning.

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Armed men of a TMVP faction have abducted nine members of two families at Pankduaave’li Friday morning following an attack on Pankudaave’li camp of the paramilitary Thursday night. The victims were said to be family members of two of seven paramilitary operatives who disappeared from the mini-camp. Tension prevails in the area following the abductions. At least three children were among the abductees. The abductions come following a joint search by the Sri Lankan Special Task Force (STF) and the TMVP paramilitary.

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Sri Lankan President and Commander-in-Chief of the SL Armed Forces Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday claimed that his forces have occupied the “full stretch of he A-32 road” (Mannaar- Poonakari) and the Poonakari area Saturday morning. “Now, we can open a land route to the Jaffna Peninsula after many years; I think we can say, it was after the Second Eelam war,” Mr. Rajapaksa said in a message to the Sri Lankan media.

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