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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teron" data-source="post: 885800" data-attributes="member: 31121">Tigers launch air, ground attack on Anuradhapura air base[TamilNet, Sunday, 21 October 2007, 23:47 GMT] Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) launched an air and ground attack on Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) air base in Anuradhapura in the early hours of Monday, Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan told TamilNet. Meanwhile, informed military sources in Colombo said two Russian built MI-24 helicopter gunships stationed in the airbase have been destroyed in the air and ground attack launched between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. Monday. This is the first time the Tigers have combined both air and ground attack in a raid. Another helicopter, a Bell 212, flown from the airbase, has crash landed at Doramadalawa in Mihintale area, 13 km east of Anuradhapura, military sources in Colombo said. 3 wounded SLAF airmen have been admitted at the Anuradhapura hospital, according to medical sources. Continuous explosions were heard inside the airbase from 3:30 a.m. according to Sinhala civilians in the area. The attack was continuing, after 5:00 a.m.Meanwhile, a SLAF reconnaissance aircraft was observed circling over K'linochchi. Three Kfir fighter jets of the SLAF were also flown over Vanni around 5:00 a.m. Anuradhapura is situated in the North Central Province, 46 km south of Vavuniyaa and 168 km northeast of Colombo.</blockquote>

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