LTTE terrorists attack civilians, killing 27 and injuring over 60
LTTE terrorists ambushed a bus carrying about 80
innocent civilians at Helagama on the Buttala- Monaragala road around
7.40a.m. (January 16). The bus that was carrying large number of
schoolchildren, office workers and poor peasants was first attacked with
a powerful claymore blast and then fired up on by the terrorists.
One survivor told defence.lk that the terrorists
remorselessly shot at the people who were jumping out of the bus
following the blast. Many women survived the bomb blast became easy
targets of the terror gunmen, he added.
According to the defence.lk sources in the area , over
60 people were initially taken to Buttla hospital following the attack.
23 people among them were already dead and except six, others were
transferred to Monaragala hospital. Among the six remaining at the
Buttla hospital, there are two children at the ages of 2 years and one
month. According to the hospital sources, the mother of the two children
was killed in the attack. There are 13 females and 10 males among the
dead at the hospital, sources added.
According to the sources in Monaragala hospital 44
people were initially admitted. Two of them succumbed to the injuries
while five were airlifted to National hospital Colombo. There are two
schoolchildren and two infants at the ages 3 and 4 years among the
wounded, the sources added.
Dr. Hector Weerasighe, the director of the National
Hospital told defence.lk that one of the five victims airlifted to
Colombo succumbed to the injuries. Other four including a 14-year-old
schoolchild are presently being treated at the intensive care unit, he
added.
LTTE is a ruthless terrorist outfit that has been
fighting for mono ethnic separate homeland for Tamils since 1983. The
outfit led by its psychopathic leader V. Prbhakaran is notorious for
crimes against women and children. During its three decades of terror
campaign against Sri Lankan citizens the outfit has killed and maimed
over tens and thousands innocent children in ethnic cleansing raids,
indiscriminate bomb attacks and by using child soldiers at the battlefronts. The FBI in its recent report called LTTE as the deadliest
terrorist outfit in the world. According to the report, "it's not al
Qaeda or Hezbollah or even HAMAS" but the group is called the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) or the Tamil Tigers for short is the
deadliest and most dangerous terrorists outfit in the world.
However, many defence observers in Sri Lanka say that
LTTE has built its "deadly" image through henoius crimes
against soft targets as women, children and unsuspecting civilians.
During the last two year alone, when the CFA was still in operation, LTTE killed
more than 4000 people.
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