After three days of gun battles, the Sri Lankan military said it has captured the last stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels and killed five rebel leaders.
“Soldiers of 53 and 58 divisions and TF-VIII captured entire Puthukkudiyiruppu area, the last base station of the LTTE terrorists this morning,” the military said in a statement posted on its Web site Sunday.
A “couple of hundred” rebels could be “hiding” in a 20-square-kilometer area designated as the “safety zone,” military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara told CNN. There will be no military offensive in that area, he said, as it has a civilian population of about 50,000 people.
- CNN
“Soldiers of 53 and 58 divisions and TF-VIII captured entire Puthukkudiyiruppu area, the last base station of the LTTE terrorists this morning,” the military said in a statement posted on its Web site Sunday.
A “couple of hundred” rebels could be “hiding” in a 20-square-kilometer area designated as the “safety zone,” military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara told CNN. There will be no military offensive in that area, he said, as it has a civilian population of about 50,000 people.
- CNN
