Friday, April 25, 2008

piliyandala bus bomb -photos














photos from,
AP , http://www.lankadeepa.lk/2008/04/25/front_news/04.htm and http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20080425_02

LTTE terrorists commit bloodbath against civilians; many killed and wounded - Piliyandala

LTTE terrorists have carried out a cowardly bomb attack targeting innocent civilians who were returning home after office hours at Pliyandala this evening. According to the available information the bomb has been exploded inside a Ceylon Transport Board bus parked at Piliyandala, public bus stand.

Several civilians have been killed and many injured in the explosion. The injured are being rushed to the Kalubowila Hospital .

LTTE is a ruthless terrorist outfit notorious for crimes against innocent civilians. In its pursuit for a mono ethnic separate homeland for Tamils, the outfit has killed and maimed over tens and innocent people in routine bus bombing , train bombing, village massacres and etc.

Extracted from,
http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20080425_02

Claymore mine defused

Today around 4.10 p.m. (25) on civil information to the Wolfendal street, Police road block, police searched a suspicious parcel and recovered a 11 kg claymore mine.Conceled in the parcel.

Later Special Task Force Bomb Disposal team defoced the claymore mine.

Extracted from,
http://www.nationalsecurity.lk/fullnews.php?id=12028

Army liberates sacred Madhu shrine from terror clutches

Sri Lanka army has liberated the sacred Madhu shrine by beating off the occupying LTTE terrorists today morning (April 25). The soldiers of 8 Sri Lanka Light Infantry reached the shrine as the terrorists beat a retreat unable to withstand the army advance.

The centuries old Catholic shrine is held sacred and respected by all Sri Lankans irrespective of religion and ethnicity. Thousands of pilgrims used to visit the shrine, especially during the church feast in August, before the terrorists took control of the area in 1999.

As LTTE terrorists unleashed their "Final War" in 2006, the church became a sanctuary for thousands of civilians who wanted to avoid their children being conscripted by the terror outfit. Later, LTTE agents acting under religious fa‡ades, evicted these civilians and unashamedly made many of them to fall prey to the terrorists.

Gradually, the terrorists almost turned the shrine into a terror base by positioning its heavy guns around the church and using it as a barrack for its cadres. Though this desecration has been carried out for last few months the fact was kept secret from the general public until the sacred statue of Our Lady of Madhu was shifted two weeks ago.

Read more,
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20080424_07

Madhu church captured

The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) formations deployed in the Mannar district captured the Madhu Church today evening. The holy shrine and the surrounding area are now under the complete control of the army.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters who had camped inside the no-war-zone departed the area in face of the army advance. It was initially feared that the tigers would blow the church before the army captured it. According to our sources the church has not been seriously damaged in the countless artillery duels which took place in the past several months.

Read more,
http://defencenet.blogspot.com/2008/04/madhu-church-captured.html,

http://defencewire.blogspot.com/2008/04/breaking-news-army-captures-madhu.html and

http://www.lakbima.lk/articles/news1.htm