Police commandos have recovered a currency note used by undercover LTTE operatives sent on missions to Colombo and its suburbs to identify each other.
Acting on information elicited by intelligence operatives, commandos Thursday morning recovered the note and a small quantity of arms, ammunition and explosives buried in a land adjacent to the Wattala Lyceum International school.
A senior spokesman for the STF told The Island that the arms cache included one T 56 assault rifle, two T 56 magazines, 125 rounds of 7.62 ammunition, 565 grams of plastic explosives and one LTTE map. (SF)
Three Tigers killed in separate confrontations
Police commandos in two separate confrontations with the LTTE on Sunday (21) and Tuesday (23) in the Ampara-Batticaloa theatre, killed three LTTE cadres and recovered one T-56 assault rifle, four T-56 magazines, six hand grenades, one communication set, one pair of binoculars, one cyanide capsule, one knife and a small stock of food items.
Soldier shot in Yala recovering
by Harischandra Gunaratna
A soldier who was injured on Tuesday when a splinter group of LTTE cadres hiding in the Yala National Park had an exchange of fire with the soldiers guarding the park Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
He was admitted to the Kataragama hospital and was later transferred to the Hambantota hospital where he underwent surgery for an ankle injury, he said.
The confrontation took place around 5.45 a.m. in Zone II of the Yala National Park.
Army had launched a search operation in the area.
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