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Sri Lankan Army captures three LTTE bases in Trincomalee district
NEW DELHI, March 9 (KUNA) -- Sri Lankan Army Friday captured three bases of
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the country's Trincomalee district
even as the outfit said they had repulsed an operation by the defence forces.
The News agency Press Trust of India reported that LTTE suffered a setback
with the fall of the three camps housing over 100 guerrillas.
Meanwhile, LTTE said today that they repulsed an initiative by the Sri
Lankan Army in the eastern Batticaloa district of the island nation. The LTTE
said they had also killed a Sri Lankan government soldier. (end)
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