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The security forces last night shot down two LTTE aircraft and foiled a desperate LTTE attempt to mount a Kamikaze type attack on the Air Force Headquarters at Slave Island and either Sapugaskanda or the Katunayake Airbase.
Army 500 meters from
Puthukuduiyirippu
The LTTE had kept up artillery fire from the no fire zone as the
troops moved towards the northern borders zeroing in on
Puthukuduiyirippu town, the sources said.
LTTE plane downed at Katunayake with the pilot
Pix by Nimal Dayaratna
JVP fights against water
tariff hike
The JVP fired its first salvo against the proposed water
tariff hike by demanding that the government declare null and void the
gazette notification seeking to increase water prices.
Two burnt LTTE aircraft
found
The security forces, on entering Puthukudiiruppu North on
Thursday, found the partially burnt remnants of two aircraft believed to
have been in the process of being built.
