Four SLA troopers killed in mistaken ambush in Batticaloa[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 September 2008, 00:25 GMT]A unit of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers lying in ambush in Vadamunai village in Koa'ra'laippattu South District Secretariat’s administrative area, mistaking another group of SLA soldiers as Liberation Tigers, fired at the troopers, killing four of them Friday night, sources in Batticaloa said. The confrontation took place near Miniminththave’li, a border village in Batticaloa. In August, 23 SLA troops were killed when LTTE cadres triggered a claymore device targeting troops traveling in a military vehicle in the same area.
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