SLA closes Vavuniya, Uyilankulam, Madhu checkpoints

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 August 2006, 12:37 GMT]
The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Saturday morning closed the entry points to and from LTTE held areas in Omanthai, Vavuniya, and in the Mannar district at Uyilankulam and Madhu junction until further notice. Madhu church is located in LTTE held area. Madhu junction is the gateway to Madhu Church located in LTTE area. Due to the closure of the Madhu junction entry point about ten thousand pilgrims who have already gone to attend the annual Madhu church festival are unable to leave for their hometowns in the south and elsewhere in the country, sources said.
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Trincomalee, Batticaloa Health workers protest attacks on health professionals

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 August 2006, 00:23 GMT]
Employees of the North East Provincial Health Ministry and Provincial Department of Health, and Batticaloa Health Service workers held protest demonstrations Friday condemning the attack on hospital ambulance that resulted in killing five staff including the medical officer in Nedunkerni in Vavuniya district, and the attack on two ambulances of the Muthur hospital last week in Trincomalee district killing three persons, civil society sources in the eastern districts said.
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Two youths shot dead in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 August 2006, 00:10 GMT]
Two persons were shot dead by unidentified men in two separate incidents in Vavuniya Friday afternoon. In the first incident, unidentified men shot dead Subash Chandrabose Suganthan, 25, a member of the paramilitary PLOTE group, at Ookulankulam around 12.45 p.m., Vavuniya Police said.
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Vavuniya Hospital staff protest over Claymore attack on doctor and staff

[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 August 2006, 10:26 GMT]
Vavuniya General Hospital staff including doctors, nurses, and hospital administration staff Thursday held a token strike on A9 Road for two hours protesting against the claymore attack Tuesday night in Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled Nedunkerni in which a doctor and four staff were killed, sources in Vavuniya said. Protestors who allowed to proceed a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) ambulance, did not allow a water-bowser to proceed. Nedunkerni hospital comes under Deputy Provincial Directors of Health (DPDH) in Vavuniya.
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5 killed in DPU Claymore attack on Ambulance

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 09 August 2006, 03:22 GMT]
A medical doctor, his wife, two nurses and the driver of the ambulance belonging to Nedunkerni hospital, were killed Tuesday night when Sri Lanka Army (SLA) Deep Penetration Unit (DPU) attacked the ambulance, medical sources in Puthukudiyiruppu hospital said. Three Claymore mines in a row were exploded. Meanwhile, a cvilian bus with 75 passengers narrowly escaped another Claymore attack around 12:45, ten kilometers from Nedunkerni ambush site. The SLMM monitors, returning from Nedunkerni, were within one kilometers when the second Claymore explosion took place.
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SLA sergeant injured in Vavunativu

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 August 2006, 18:43 GMT]
M.Jayantha, 35 years, a Sri Lankan Army (SLA) Sergeant on guard duty at the Vavunativu SLA Camp was injured in an attack on the camp by LTTE cadres at the LTTE Forward Defense Lines (FDL) around 7:00 a.m. Friday, Batticaloa Police said. The injured trooper was admitted to the Batticaloa Teaching Hospital for treatment.
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Claymore blast injures 4 policemen in Vavuniya, attacker killed

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 August 2006, 21:08 GMT]
A police reinforcement team that arrived at Poonthoddam following a sentry in the area came under gunfire was hit by claymore blast, around 1.55 a.m., Friday, injuring four, police in Vavuniya town said. They said the body of a youth was found along with a grenade and a claymore in nearby paddy field when the police searched the area, later in the morning.
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SLMM Trinco office remains closed

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 August 2006, 07:13 GMT]
The main office of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), located on Inner Harbour Road, leading to the Trincomalee naval base, remains closed until further notice since Wednesday's artillery shell attack on the east port base. Monitors are now staying in their quarters in a hotel about sixteen km off the town.
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Policeman shot dead

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 August 2006, 17:11 GMT]
A Sri Lankan Policeman was shot and killed on the Vavuniya - Horawapotana road, around 6:45 p.m., Monday, police in the northern town said.
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SLA trooper wounded in Vavuniya grenade attack

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 July 2006, 14:50 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) trooper was seriously injured in a grenade attack by unknown assailants at the sentry in front of Vavuniya Madhya Maha Vidiyalayam at 7:55 p.m. Sunday, Police sources in Vavuniya said. The injured soldier was first admitted to Vavuniya Teaching Hospital and later transported to the Sri Lanka Military Hospital for emergency surgery.
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Police Sergeant, two men injured in Vavuniya blasts

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 15:55 GMT]
A Sri Lankan Police Sergeant and two young men were injured in two separate grenade blasts in Vavuniya, Saturday evening, police in the northern town said.
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Bar employee shot dead in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 July 2006, 13:59 GMT]
An unknown gunman walked into a liquor bar located on Horawapatana Road in Vavuniya and shot dead an employee inside the bar at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Vavuniya Police said. Immanuel Eugene Dias, 43, was seriously injured, and died while being transported to Vavuniya Teaching Hospital, hospital sources said.
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Three Sri Lankan homeguards killed in Claymore ambush

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 19:00 GMT]
Three homeguards, riding in a motorbike, were killed in a Claymore ambush on Vavuniya Kebitigollawe Road around 6:45 p.m. Friday, Police said.
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Blast at Vavuniya EPDP office

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 17:15 GMT]
A grenade exploded at the Vavuniya office of the paramilitary Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) located at Kurumankadu, in Vavuniya, around 2.25 p.m, Friday. It was not confirmed if it was an attack or a bomb went off accidently, sources said. No damage was caused to the office.
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Three-wheeler explodes at LTTE FDL in Batticaloa, 2 killed

[TamilNet, Friday, 28 July 2006, 07:28 GMT]
Two persons who were travelling in a three-wheeler from the SLA controlled territory were killed when explosives in their vehicle exploded at the gateway of the LTTE held Monkeykattu area in Vavunathivu in Batticaloa district, Friday noon. The three- wheeler was destroyed in the explosion, LTTE officials in Batticaloa said. The victims were suspected be persons who were abducted by the Sri Lankan troopers and their paramilitaries as a person left the three-wheeler towards SLA FDL seconds before the three-wheeler exploded.
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SL Navy attacks fishermen in the seas off Mullaithivu

[TamilNet, Thursday, 27 July 2006, 08:35 GMT]
Dvora Fast Attack Crafts of Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) Thursday early morning attacked fishing vessels off Mullaithivu coast in Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled territory. One fisherman, a tsunami surviver, escaped narrowly from the attack, but lost his Don Bosco gifted boat and nets. The fishermen who had gone for fishing in 10 boats at 3:30 a.m. were attacked by the SLN FACs around 6:30 a.m. in the morning. Ten boats managed to reach the shore before the Dvora gunboats approached the site, according to fishermen who escaped from the attack.
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Man shot dead, another injured in Vavuniya

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 07:16 GMT]
A young man was shot dead and another was injured in two seperate incidents, Wednesday morning in Vavuniya, police in the northern town said.
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SLA soldier killed, trooper, policeman injured

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 07:06 GMT]
A Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldier was killed and another was injured in an attack at Kokkuveli in Thandikkulam, 5 km. north of Vavuniya, police in the northern town said. Further west, in a separate incident, a policeman was injured in a grenade attack at a sentry post at Kattukaraikulam Reservoir along Mannar-Uyilankulam road, around 7.10 a.m, Wednesday, police in Mannar said.
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Surge in Mannar residents fleeing to South India

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 July 2006, 01:55 GMT]
Increasing number of residents of Mannar district have started fleeing to South India by boats following the escalation in number of abductions, and killings of several Tamil civilians by State armed forces and Deep Penetration Units of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), civil sources said.
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Two policemen injured in Vavuniya grenade attack

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 25 July 2006, 16:33 GMT]
Two Sri Lankan Policemen were injured in a grenade attack at a sentry post at Goodshed road in Vavuniya, police in the northern town said.
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