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More than 100 bunkers captured The army on Saturday reached the western edge of the Nayaru lagoon in Welioya and overran another key LTTE base north of Andankulam with more than one hundred bunkers after a fierce battle, in the south of Mullaitivu in the North-eastern region, the military said. “‘Jeevan Base’, as it was called, that came under army control on Saturday evening had been used by the LTTE as a large underground training facility,” military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said adding that “on the side of the training base, located about 1.5 km southwest of the western edge of the Nayaru lagoon, troops found a graveyard in with 67 tombs of LTTE cadres.” He said four buildings with an area of about 1250 square metres, one hundred underground bunkers, thirty five lavatories, two concrete bunkers of 15 x 15 feet, two wheelbarrows, forty empty barrels, and a heap of slippers were found inside the base which consisted part of their 14-Base Complex in the Welioya area. Acco...