Pre-school building destroyed in air strike in Muttur east

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 April 2006, 18:46 GMT]
Pre-school and the science laboratory of Chenaiyoor Central College were damaged in the air strike and artillery shell attack launched by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Tuesday evening on the villages in the Muttur east in the Trincomalee district held by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a worker of a local non-governmental organization in the area told Tamilnet by telephone. The NGO worker was under the first floor of the college when the artillery attack took place.

He said more than sixty shells fired by the security forces exploded in several villages, including Kaddaiparichchan, Chenaiyoor, Koonitheivu, Soodaikuda, Kadatkaraichenai.