10 sea tigers killed; 8 sea tiger boats destroyed - Mullaittivu
Naval patrol craft detected a cluster of LTTE boats heading towards Pulmudai from Nayaru in Mullaittivu last night, Friday the 04th of May.
Naval sources said that 26 LTTE sea tiger boats including 4 suicide boats were among the LTTE boat cluster detected at 11.30 p.m. yesterday.
Sri Lanka Navy Fast Attack Craft immediately confronted with the LTTE sea tigers and sunk two sea tiger boats defence sources said.
Further, six LTTE boats were severely damaged in the confrontation and LTTE sea tigers fled along with the damaged boats due to effective retaliation.
According to the defence sources 10 LTTE sea tigers were killed and 12 were injured.
Meanwhile, two naval personnel sustained minor injuries due to the confrontation.
Extracted from,
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070505_04
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