Three Soldiers Dead in Vavuniya

Tamil Eelam Liberation Tigers fired mortar shells into a government-held area in Vavuniya on Tuesday, killing three soldiers, the military sources said.

Meanwhile LTTE cadres fired volleys of shells at Thampanai in Vavuniya district, just south of the Tiger-controlled area in northern Sri Lanka, the military said. The soldiers retaliated.

Even, defence sources from Jaffna say the LTTE cadres have lunched an artillery attack targeting Palaly and Kankasanthurai areas in the Jaffna peninsula today morning around 9 a.m.

The sources further say that few artillery rounds have fallen and the security forces have undertaken retaliatory attacks. Presently the situation has been taken under control by the security forces.