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Lankan troops break month-long seige, kills 26
COLOMBO, Apr 26: Sri Lankan government troops, using air and sea support, have broken a month-long siege by separatist Tamil rebels of an island naval base, killing 26 guerillas in a day of lighting, military sources said today, reports Reuter.
Six government soldiers were also killed and 20 wounded on Thursday in the battle for Karainagai naval base on the island of Karaitivu off the northern coast of Srl Lanka, the sources said.
Security forces also captured a vital causeway, Poonalai, that links Karaitivu with mainland Jaffna, the stronghold of the separatists who are fighting for an independent homeland.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been attacking security forces' bases constantly on the Jaffna peninsula, the sources said.
Earher this week they said that more than 1,000 rebels and 170 government troops had been killed over the past month or so during
offensives launched by the government.
Defence Ministry Secretary Cyril Ranatunga said on Thursday an indefinite curfew had been imposed in Jaffna.
"We have had a rain of mortars fired into our camps,” he told reporters.
The military sources said a large number of rebel bunkers were destroyed. Several vehicles, bags full of anti-personnel mines, rifle-grenades, ammunition and uniforms were captured after the siege was broken.
Security forces mounted a simultaneous offensive in nearby Kayts island where an army detachment had come under regular rebel fire. Details of this operations were not available.
" The curfew is still on and the operations are continuing," a military officer said.
Karainagar is the main naval base for patrol boats trying to prevent tigers smuggling men and arms across the Narrow Palk strait between Jaffna and south India.
One soldier was killed and two wounded when tigers tried to attack a village of the majority Sinhalese community at Welioya in the east on Thursday, the sources said.
Ranatunga said the tigers were trying to divert troops by attacking Sinhalese villages In th< east.
They hacked to death 17 villagers in Ampara district on April 14, and massacred 22 last Sunday in a jungle village at Moneragala.
Three rebels were killed in separate clashes in Ampara, Batticafoa and Trincomalee districts on Thursday, the sources said.
Reports of the military operations and casualties could not be independently verified.