2 Karuna cadres injured in Batticaloa attack

[TamilNet, Sunday, 04 March 2007, 22:05 GMT]
Two cadres of paramilitary Karuna group were injured when their camp the located at Mylambavely adjoining the Sri Lanka Army camp along Trinco road came under attack at 7:05 p.m. Sunday. Four Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) staying in the nearby school building were injured in the counter attack. All six injured persons were rushed to the Batticaloa teaching hospital for treatment, sources in Batticaloa said.

The camp, located in a house 100 meters from the SLA camp was destroyed in the sudden attack that lasted 15 minutes.

A woman and three men who had fled from the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam controlled areas recently due to the shelling and bombings by the Sri Lankan armed forces were injured.

Mylambavely is located 11 km north of Batticaloa.