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Lankan troops face stiff resistance from Tigers
COLOMBO. May 30 : Hundreds of troops backed by air and sea cover continued an offensive against Tami) guerillas in northeastern Srl Lanka, with an estimated 34 Ilves lost In heavy fighting tn the area, officials said, reports AFP.
Four of the victims were soldiers killed when troops advanced towards bases of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) In coastal Mullaltvu district Friday, a military spokesman In Colombo said.
He said troops faced stiff resistance, but were assisted by Naval gunboats and the air force which "blasted Jeeps and
trucks" carrying rebel reinforcements lo the front.
We lost four. Five others were seriously injured and another five slightly hurt. We estimate that about 30 Tigers were killed in air attacks," the spokesman said.
The latest casualties took to 44 the number of army dead, and to 100 the .estimated LTTE fatalities, in three days of fighting In the sprawling northeast, where the Tamil Tigers want to set up a separate state for Srl Lanka s minority Tamils.
The army offensive in Mullaltivu continued Saturday and a second phase of opera
Hons In the LTTE-controlled northern Jaffna peninsula, particularly on the outskirts of Palaly air base, was also due to begin, officials said.
. Guerillas hit back Friday by wiping out 29 soldiers Including two officers in an ambush in another area, eastern Battlcaloa district, forcing the army to extend Its current "limited operation" to include the east, officials said.
"It (the ambush) was clearly a diversionary tactic. Now wc have started follow-up operations to track down the Tigers In Battlcaloa^ Essentially, our men arc In action In a number of places," a military official
said.
But the main thrust of the air-sea-land campaign remained confined to Jaffna peninsula and Mullaltivu district. where troops captured rebel-held territory and ex pa nd cd their forward defence lines, the spokesman stild.
"In the process of conduct Ing operations, our alm Is to kill as many Tigers as possible," he said, adding that rebel casualties, were believed to be much higher than official estimates. _
Meanwhile: Tamil guerillas killed three security personnel in a major attack on a military post near a northern Sri Lanka
town where President Ranasinghe Prcmadasa has been on a three day visit, officials said Saturday. .
About 1OO members of the Liberation Tigers qf Tamil Eclanl (LTTE) attacked a forward defence line In /Vavuniya district late Friday. killing two policemen and a paira-mllitary trooper and wfcundfng seven soldiers including (an officer, the officials said. '
A military spokesman in. Colombo said troops backed by tanks retaliated, dauslng "m-any" casualties *mong the LTTE militants who fired small arms and rockei-propclled grenades al the defence Hne