Sri Lankan warplanes attack Tamil rebels' suicide camp
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Nov 26, IRNA
Sri Lanka-LTTE camps-Bombing
Sri Lanka's warplanes attacked a suspected base of Tamil Tiger suicide cadres in the island's northern region, the defence ministry said in Colombo.
It said the warplanes bombed a suspected base of the outfit's suicide squad `Black Tigers' in the island's north Sunday. It did not give details of any casualties.
However, the ministry said they caused "heavy damages." The air attack in the north came as the Tigers commemorated their war dead. Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran is to make his annual speech on Monday.
Meanwhile, a policeman was killed when he was caught up in a landmine attack in the northern district of Vavuniya. In the island's east, the military claimed it killed four rebels.
The LTTE said they had decorated areas under their control with red and yellow flags to mark Heroes' Week, which ends Monday.
The pro-rebel tamilnet.Com website said the military was moving to disrupt commemorative events inside government-held areas of Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula.
"Sri Lanka army troopers, Thursday and Friday, have destroyed the platforms erected for the celebrations in the three Heroes' cemeteries and also have razed to the ground several memorial stones," tamilnet.Com said.
Fighting between Tigers and government troops has escalated in the past year, claiming more than 3,400 lives despite a now threadbare ceasefire agreed in 2002.
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