40 Tigers Killed In Sri Lanka Air Strikes
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer Colombo, Sri Lanka (AHN) - Amidst reports that the latest Sri Lankan air strike against an LTTE conference centre left at least 40 Tamil Tigers dead, the government said the four days of bombings on rebel positions in the island's northeast were a "limited operation" and not a return to full-scale war. Quoting intelligence sources, 'The Sunday Times' reported that at least 40 Tigers died in the aerial attack in the district of Batticaloa, but the rebels maintained that they lost only eight cadre. The Defence Ministry said the attacks were aimed at ending a Tiger blockade of an irrigation canal that had deprived water to thousands of farmers in the island's restive northeast. "The security forces are currently engaged in a limited operation with a clearly defined objective of securing water supplies to the civilian population," it said in a statement. Tamil Tigers, meanwhile, asked Nordic monitors to declare that Sri Lanka's faltering truce was over following four days of bombing by air force jets. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said a total of 15 of their members were killed in the bombing, including the eight killed earlier.
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