Sri Lanka air strikes were suicide attacks: LTTE
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Feb 21, IRNA -- Sri Lankan rebels, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Saturday said that the air strikes carried out by it over capital Colombo killing two people and injuring 54 others were suicide attacks by its elite 'Black Air Tiger' squad.
The LTTE said two men from the 'Black Air Tiger' suicide squad piloted the two light aircraft that carried out the attack on Friday night.
"The aircrafts dived into Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Headquarters in Colombo and into the SLAF base at Katunayaka at around 0915 pm on Friday night carrying out successful air raids," pro-LTTE website 'TamilNet' reported.
However, the government had on Friday night said it shot down one aircraft and the second one was disabled by the anti-air gunfire.
It also said the pilot of one aircraft was killed.
The website also published a photograph of the two suicide pilots together with Tamil Tigers supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran said to have been taken shortly before they set off on the suicide mission.
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