SLAF bombs Puthukkudiyiruppu

[TamilNet, Thursday, 13 September 2007, 06:14 GMT]
Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombers bombed Puthukkudiyiruppu Thursday morning, when the students of Puthukkudiyiruppu Central College were out in the grounds, assembled for morning prayers. Many students fainted in fear while the rest of the students and teachers scattered in panic as 12 aerial bombs exploded with deafening noise which shook the buildings in the school and the town for twenty minutes, between 8:30 and 8:50 a.m.



In the ensuing scramble many students were injured.

Out patients and those warded in Puthukkudiyiruppu hospital also fled from the hospital premises fearing attacks on the hospital area.

Four SLAF Kfir fighter jets bombed Vaddakkachchi area in Ki'linochchi district Tuesday morning, first beween 8:30 and 8:45 a.m and then at 9:00 a.m, causing panic among students and teachers in schools who fled in fear seeking safety.