Six major attacks attributed to Piliyandala bomber

Police investigating the recent Piliyandala bomb blast, which claimed the lives of 26 civilians and wounded over 60, believe that Wasanthan, arrested in connection with the blast, had been involved in six major attacks, including the assassination of Deputy Army Chief of Staff Major General Parami Kulatunga.

According to investigators, the suspect had also been involved in the Mount Lavinia bus attack, a claymore mine blast directed at an army truck at Belekkade junction, Ratmalana, The blast at a clothing store at Nugegoda and the attempt to assassinate EPDP leader Douglas Devananda.

Police believe the suspect had been responsible for the devastating claymore mine attack on an SLTB bus at Kebitigollewa. Under interrogation, the suspect and two others, including a Sinhalese in custody for his involvement with the LTTE, had said they had plans to trigger explosions on eight more buses in the Western Province.

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Army razed to ground the LTTE's 19 (one nine) Base

The Sri Lanka Army razed to ground the LTTE's 19 (one nine) Base, a strong point northeast of Giant's Tank successfully today. Troops from the 59 Division operating in Weli Oya were again targeted by a heavy barrage of artillery fire.

Shells fell close to civilian settlements at Janakapura and Kiriibbanwewa again today. A civilian injured in an artillery fire at Yaya 11 Padavi Sripura yesterday was admitted to Padaviya Hospital last afternoon.

Troops operating along the Janakapura-Adankulam road in Weli Oya today which is appropriately titled by soldiers as "Jayamawatha", managed to kill 5 Tigers in isolated incidents. Over 100 anti-personnel mines were also recovered today. The fighting continues in dense jungles.

Two STF personnel were killed in general area Dutuwewa in Kebitigollewa, Anuradhapura. The STF road picket returned fire killing two LTTE infiltrators.

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Group of youth hacked to death by LTTE terrorists

Police have found several bodies of youth dumped in a swamp at Hijrapura on the Horoupathana - Kebithigollawa road by suspected LTTE terrorists this evening, January 24.

Police said the victims are believed to be a group of civilians who had gone searching for their cattle.

The victims were apparently hacked to death, the sources added.

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LTTE terrorists attack civilian bus killing civilians - Kebethigollawa

LTTE terrorists carried out another cowardly attack at the civilians by targeting a civilian bus plying from Anuradhapura to Jankapura this evening. According to the available information the terrorists have detonated a roadside bomb around 8.15p.m at Abhimanpura, on the Kebithigollawa - Padaviya road. At 15 civilians have been killed and 23 others injured as the fully packed bus was deliberately targeted by the terrorists. Correct deaths and casualty figures are yet be known.

LTTE is a terrorist outfit fighting for a mono ethnic separate homeland for the Tamils in Sri Lanka since 1983. Engulfed with ideologies based on extreme tribalism, LTTE has carried out many civilian massacres against Sinhala and Muslim people living in the North and Eastern provinces. Since, beginning of its bloody terrorist campaign against Sri Lankan citizens LTTE has been able to turn the entire Northern Province into a mono ethnic province by killing tens and thousands of people in its ethnic cleansing raids at Sinhala and Muslim villages.

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