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Navy thwarts Sea Tiger attack on
advancing ground troops
Six Sea Tiger boats destroyed, 25 Sea Tigers killed
The Navy’s elite Special Boat Squadron and Fast Attack Craft destroyed six Sea Tiger boats, killing 25 Sea Tigers, including three leaders, in the seas of Wellamullai off Mullaitivu early yesterday morning, Navy sources said.
Naval troops engaged a combined cluster of sea tiger suicide and attack craft in their berth in the ‘No Fire’ zone attempting to set off on a mission to attack the advancing ground troops. Four suicide craft laden with high explosives and two attack craft mounted with high caliber weapons were destroyed by Navy fire.
An SLN craft was slightly damaged and one sailor injured.
The round-the-clock vigilance maintained by Naval troops on continuous patrolling close to the now-fast-weakening Tiger stronghold, has been instrumental in thwarting the desperate last-ditch Sea Tiger attacks on ground troops.
The Navy said its fortifications have been tightened with multiple defence barriers consisting of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs), Fast Gun Boats (FGBs), Fast Attack Craft (FACs), the Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS) and the Special Boat Squadron (SBS). Continuous shore-based radar surveillance is also being carried out in order to compliment Naval units to prevent remaining LTTE cadres from launching desperate attacks on advancing Security Forces personnel and to cut off attempts of Tiger leaders trapped in the ‘NO Fire’ zone to escape.
