Tigers release details of arms, ammunition seized in Northern Front
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Liberation Tigers Military Spokesman Irasiah Ilanthirayan on Wednesday
evening told TamilNet that Tige forces under the leader****p of
Commander Theepan confronted the SLA units for ten-and-a-half hours,
from 02:30 a.m. till 12:40 p.m. along a 7 km wide defence line in the
large scale operation launched by the Sri Lanka Army. 30 SLA bodies
were recovered by the Tigers. Arrangements were being made to hand
over the mortal remains of the SLA soldiers killed in action to their
parents. 60 guns including tank mounted PKT machine guns, Rocket
Propelled Grenade Launchers and forty-five assault rifles were seized
by the Tigers.
Mr. Ilanthirayan provided details of the arms and ammunition seized by
the Tigers:
Forty-one T-56 Type 2 assault rifles,
Three T-56 Type-1 assault rifles,
Five Light Machine Guns (LMG),
Two PKT Tank machine guns,
Five Rocket Propelled Grenade Launchers (RPG),
Three 40 mm Grenade Launchers,
Seven anti-armour RPG shells,
Twenty-one anti-personnel RPG shells,
Twenty-six propellers for RPGs,
8500 inter-medium ammunition,
1500 chained ammo for machine guns,
104 magazines
Twelve helmets
Ilanthiryan quoted LTTE Commander Theepan as saying that there were
further bullet and explosives ridden bodies of SLA soldiers scattered
around inside the no-man zone.
16 LTTE fighters were killed in action.
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