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No.
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Date
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Description
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1
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January 1
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The UNP Member of Parliament,
T. Maheshwaran, was shot at and injured by suspected ‘pistol
gang’ cadres of the LTTE
while he was offering prayers inside Sivam Kovil (Temple of
Lord Shiva) at Kotahena in the capital Colombo. The Parliamentarian,
however, succumbed to his injuries. One of the nine more civilians
wounded in the incident also died of his injuries. Meanwhile
the Kotahena police claimed that the suspect, a resident of
Gurunagar in Jaffna, was shot at and injured in retaliatory
fire by Maheswaran's security personnel and is under police
custody.
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2
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January 2
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Four persons were killed and
over 20 injured in a powerful bomb blast in Colombo. The Defence
Ministry said the blast which occurred at about 9:30am opposite
the Nippon Hotel, targeted an army bus carrying soldiers.
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3
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January 4
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The death toll in the LTTE claymore
attack at Slave Island in Colombo on January 2 has risen to
five with the death of the Second Lieutenant D.M.S.K. Dissanayake
of Sri Lanka National Guard who was among the critically injured
persons.
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4.
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January 8
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Suspected LTTE militants killed
the non-Cabinet Minister for Nation Building, D.M. Dissanayake,
in a claymore mine blast near Rukmani Devi junction at Ja-ela
while he was proceeding towards Colombo to attend the Parliament
session. A personal bodyguard of the Minister, identified as
K.P. Rathnayaka, also succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
13 people, including seven civilians, were injured in the incident.
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5.
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January 8
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The SLAF chief, Air Marshal
Roshan Goonetilleke, narrowly escaped being caught in a bomb
blast in Colombo. The SLAF commander had passed by the site
of the blast in the Fort area of central Colombo, just three
minutes before a parcel bomb placed in a roadside public telephone
booth went off. Fitted with a timer, the bomb caused some minor
damage to a building nearby. However, no casualties were reported.
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6.
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January 18
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Troops on a search operation
in the Wattala area of Colombo district recovered one micro
pistol, two magazines with eight live rounds and two hand grenades.
The items had been hidden in an abandoned house at Weliamuna
junction on Alakanda – Wattala road.
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7.
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January 25
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Police detected and chased four
suspected persons, including one woman and three men on two
motor bikes, in the middle of the Japan Lanka Friendship road
at Thalangama Police Station in the Colombo district. Police
later recovered a package with two Kiwi polish tins and a gum
bottle filled with 175 grams of C-4 explosives along with eight
inch wire cord detonator cord left behind by the suspected persons.
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8.
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January 26
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Police recovered two suicide
jackets hidden in the Aduruppu Street in the Grandpass area
of Colombo district. Those suicide jackets were filled with
high power C-4 explosives.
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9.
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February 3
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At least 12 persons were killed
and around 100 injured, 10 of them critically, when an LTTE
female suicide militant blew herself inside the Colombo Fort
Railway Station. The bomber who apparently arrived at the railway
station in a train blew herself opposite the station cafeteria
on platform number three at 2.10pm. The head of the suicide
cadre was lying on the platform along with a cellular phone
connected to a handsfree kit. "They (LTTE) would have targeted
Security Forces personnel who were returning to their bases
after rehearsals at the Galle Face Green," an unnamed military
official said.
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10.
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February 3
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Earlier in the day, at least
seven civilians, including two children, were injured in a low
intensity grenade explosion inside the Dehiwala Zoological Garden
on the outskirts of Colombo.
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11.
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February 4
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An explosion occurred at Dandeniyawatta
in the Moratuwa area of Colombo District.
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12.
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February 4
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An IED that had been planted
at the foot of an electricity transformer at Wijesiriwardane
Mawatha in the Mt Lavinia went off damaging the transformer.
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13.
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February 5
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LTTE cadres blasted an electricity transformer
in front of the Rajakadaluwa Christian Church in the Arachchikattuwa
area of Chilaw. However, no casualties were reported.
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14.
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February 21
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A naval foot patrol recovered 20-kg of C-4 explosives
packed in 20 packets, containing 1 kg in each packets, 23 detonators
and two belts from Kerawalapitiya along the Colombo-Katunayake
road, unnamed senior Navy official said. He informed the area
is highly sensitive as gas tanks and oil refineries were situated
and added, "A major disaster and mayhem was averted by recovering
the 20kg of C4 explosives."
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15.
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February 27
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The Defence Ministry said that
the person arrested on February 25 in the Pettah area of Colombo
district was a number one LTTE militant allegedly involved in
many civilian massacres carried out by the LTTE in the South.
The suspect, identified as Muththusami Ilankoowan alias Sami,
was arrested from a hotel on Kadireshan Road. The suspect owns
a shipping line which he uses to promote the LTTE’s cross border
terrorist activities and had come to Sri Lanka in 2007 to promote
terrorist activities in the South.
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16.
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February 29
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Seven persons, including three
police officers, were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself
up when police knocked on a house door during an operation targeting
LTTE militants in Colombo. One of the injured police officers
died later. One LTTE suicide jacket, six claymore mines, four
hand grenades and one suicide belt were recovered by the police
from Modera area of Colombo district couple of hours before
the blast.
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17.
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March 5
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Medawachchiy police seized a
three-wheeler with three persons and war like items at a snap
roadblock near the Karapikkada junction in the Colombo district.
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18.
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March 10
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One civilian was killed and
four others were injured in an IED explosion in the Wallawatta
area on the Colombo-Galle road.
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19.
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March 25
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Police arrested five LTTE suspects
along with four kilograms of C-4 explosives, 10 electric detonators
and four time devices from a house in the Aluth Mawatha area
in Colombo district.
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20.
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April 8
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The Colombo magistrate has allowed
police to detain a Singapore national suspected of having links
with the LTTE until May 7. The magistrate also ordered the police
to produce the suspect, Muttusamy Ilangovan, believed to be
a senior leader of the LTTE's international naval operations.
He is also accused of staying in Sri Lanka although his visa
had expired.
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21
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April 26
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26 civilians, including 17 males
and seven females, were killed and 40 others injured when the
LTTE militants detonated a bomb inside a Ceylon Transport Board
bus parked at the public bus stand in Piliyandala suburb of
Colombo, at around 7:00 pm.
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22.
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May 12
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Troops recovered one T-56 weapon,
three magazines and one hand grenade from a location near a
building complex on D.R. Wijewardena Mawatha.
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23.
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May 16
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13 persons, including nine police
personnel, were killed and 95 others were injured as a LTTE
suicide bomber on a motorcycle laden with explosives rammed
into a bus carrying police officers around 12.05 pm at the Colombo
Fort. Reports indicated that the LTTE may have aimed to sabotage
the swearing-in of the newly elected Eastern Provincial Councillors
at the nearby Presidential Secretariat through this attack.
But the event was held as scheduled.
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24.
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May 24
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The SFs defused a time-bomb
with C4 explosives from inside a passenger bus near Seylan Bank
Branch at Rawathawatta in the Moratuwa area of Colombo district.
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25.
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May 26
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At least eight passengers, including
four women, were killed when a LTTE parcel bomb with a timer
exploded in a crowded train near Dehiwala, a suburb of capital
Colombo, at around 4.50pm (SLT). More than 70 persons were injured
in the explosion which occurred in the fifth compartment of
the Kalutara district-bound train, Senior Superintendent of
Police R. Gunasekara said.
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26.
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May 30
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The Police recovered a claymore
mine from inside a Central Transport Board bus at Moratuwa bus-stand
in the Colombo district. One detonator and few electrical batteries
were also found along with the claymore mine.
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27.
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May 31
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Unidentified assailants lobbed
a hand grenade targeting civilians near a private bank at Wellawatta
town on the Colombo-Galle road in Colombo and injured 10 persons.
Two of the injured persons died later.
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28.
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June 4
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At least 17 persons were injured
in a bomb blast along the coastal railway track at Dehiwala,
a suburb of capital Colombo, police said. Police spokesman Ranjith
Gunasekera said that an unidentified assailant attempted to
lob a parcel at the Colombo bound train from Panadura, but failed
as civilians in the area prevented it by screaming. "After noticing
that the people had seen him, the suspect had thrown the parcel
towards the railway track and ran away from the scene," he added.
The railway track was slightly damaged due to the blast.
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29.
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June 6
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22 persons were killed and 40
others injured in a LTTE-triggered a powerful explosion on a
public bus near Katubedda Shailabimbaramaya temple on the Katubedda
– Piliyandala main road in Colombo. Eight women and 13 men were
among the dead in the explosion in the bus which was proceeding
to Mt. Lavinia from Kottawa.
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30.
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June 6
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Police on the information provided
by an arrestee recovered a 5-kg heavy claymore mine from 2nd
Avenue near Abeysekararamaya road at Watarappala in the Mt Lavinia
region of Colombo.
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31.
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June 6
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On information given by an arrestee
the security forces recover a stock of arms and ammunition from
a data processing company office in Wellawatta on the Galle
road. The recoveries include one micro pistol, one magazine,
explosives and detonators.
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32.
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June 13
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The mastermind behind the international
credit card fraud for funding the LTTE has been arrested by
the STF while conducting a search operation in the Wellawatta
area of Colombo. The suspect, Anandan alias Neshanadan Muruganandan,
was in a super luxury apartment in Wellawatta at the time he
was arrested by the special Police team. He had a large number
of Personal Identification Numbers (PIN) and bank receipts issued
by both local and foreign banks, amounting to over SLR 100 million,
in his possession. He had cloned credit cards using PIN and
card numbers obtained from unsuspecting cards holders in the
United Kingdom. These funds were later transferred to the LTTE.
British Police conducted several raids which proved that the
cloned cards were being used in Sri Lanka to draw funds.
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June 14
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Six LTTE suspects, including
a female, was arrested by a special Police investigation team
during an anti-terrorist raid conducted in Wattala area, a suburb
of Colombo. The investigation team has also found C-4 high explosives
weighing around 2.7kg in the possession of the suspects at the
time of arrest. According Police spokesperson, Ranjith Gunasekara,
Police is conducting further investigations.
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34.
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June 18
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A hand grenade was recovered
from inside a private bus plying from Avissawella to Colombo.
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35.
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June 20
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Police, following information
received from a Black Tiger arrested in Colombo recently, recovered
9.5-kg of C4 explosives, 1.5-kg of steel balls, eight detonators
and some batteries. Further interrogation led to the arrest
of another LTTE militant, who impersonated as a film director,
who was gathering intelligence on movements of VIPs participating
in a function at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference
Hall in Colombo.
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36.
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June 20
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A sophisticated machine used
for printing forged credit cards was recovered by police in
Colombo. A defence official told the Daily Mirror the machine
was found after interrogating Neshanadan Muruganandan alias
Anandan - the alleged mastermind behind an international credit
card scam - arrested by the Special Task Force personnel in
Wellawatta last week.
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37.
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June 21
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A claymore mine weighing about
six-kg was recovered from the Sebestian canal at Bodhiraja Mawatha
in Colombo.
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38.
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June 21
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One person believed to have
maintained close contact with the LTTE was arrested in Colombo
by a special Police team. Preliminary investigations revealed
that the arrested suspect, the manager of "Sooriyan Rest",
No. 18, station road, Colombo 6, had provided accommodation
to the LTTE suicide cadre who self-detonated an explosion targeting
a Police vehicle near the Sambuddhaloka Temple on Lotus Road
on May 16, 2008.
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39.
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June 22
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Army troops found one T-56 weapon
and one S-84 type weapon hidden inside a three-wheeler speeding
past Kotahena area in Colombo. The driver of the three-wheeler
was also arrested.
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40.
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June 29
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One hand grenade was recovered
by the SFs from one lorry passing Magammana in the Homagama
area of Colombo district.
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41.
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July 13
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Police conducted a search operation
near the Aurveda Hospital at Rajagiriya and found two hand grenades,
one shotgun and 36 rounds of ammunition hidden near the statue
of Dr. N.M. Perera.
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42.
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August 2
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Police recovered 400-g of TNT
high explosive hidden inside a pair of ladies’ shoes, a kilogram
of the same explosive laden inside a tin container, two LTTE
camouflage uniforms and one box of ammunition buried under soil
in a jungle area on the beach in the Karukkupane area of Colombo
district.
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43.
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August 19
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An unidentified assailant killed
a Police Constable, Herath, guarding a sealed private Computer
Graphic Centre in the Kotahena area of Colombo. The Computer
Graphic Center, suspected to have been involved in LTTE terrorist
networks, remained sealed following a Court order.
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August 22
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Accessories needed to prepare
suicide jackets were recovered by the SFs from the inside of
St. Philip Neri's Catholic Church in Colombo Fort. The SFs recovered
a bag laden with 11 MR type switches, 11 PT type switches, one
PR type switch, five remote antennas and one bag of garments.
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45.
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August 30
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At least 48 persons, including
two children and seven women, were injured in an LTTE-triggered
parcel bomb explosion at the Bo-Tree Junction in the Pettah
area, a short distance away from the main bus terminal in Colombo.
Defence officials said the bomb inside the parcel was left near
a wristwatch vendor.
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46.
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September 8
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10 persons were injured, two
of them seriously, in a hand grenade explosion in the Pettah
area of Colombo district. Several vehicles, including a Police
Emergency car that was passing the place when the blast occurred
were badly damaged.
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47.
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September 10
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An explosion was reported near
the De Seram road end adjoining the railway track in Mt. Lavinia
in the Colombo district. However, no loss of life or damages
to the property was reported.
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48.
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September 11
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An explosion occurred near the
upward railway track area at Kalupalama in the Wellampitiya
region of Colombo district. However, no loss of life or damage
to the property was reported.
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49.
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September 13
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The Police recovered about 100-g
C4 explosives and a timer near an electricity transformer close
to the Dehiwala Zoo in Colombo district.
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50.
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September 16
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Four persons were injured when
a suspected parcel bomb exploded inside a Colombo Transport
Bus at Horton Place roundabout in Colombo.
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51.
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September 24
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Commandos of the Sri Lanka Police
Special Task Force recovered one T-56 and two T-56 magazines,
125 T-56 ammunitions, 565-g explosives and a map at Wattala
in the Hekiththa area of Colombo district.
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52.
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September 26
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The SFs recovered an LTTE suicide
jacket weighing 3.6 kg, 152 kg of C-4 explosives in eighteen
packages, two 9V batteries, two 17 m double detonator codes,
a 32 m detonator code, a stock of detonators and a night vision
device from Rosary road at Kudapaduwa in the Negombo area of
Colombo district and also arrested two suspects in connection
with the recovery.
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53.
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September 29
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Two persons were injured in
a bomb explosion which also damaged several vehicles at the
parking lot at Front Street in the Pettah area of Colombo district.
The time bomb was placed in a parcel under a van. "Three vans,
two cars, three trishaws, a lorry and two motorcycles were damaged
in the explosion," Police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekera said.
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54.
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October 4
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The LTTE exploded an electricity
transformer located along Ferguson Road in Grandpass, a residential
area within the Colombo city limits using 400–500 grams of explosives.
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55.
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October 5
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The Government has reportedly
created a special police task force to protect the Colombo and
its suburbs from possible terrorist attacks as the LTTE is facing
losses to the military in the North.
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56.
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October 9
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Agriculture Development and
Agrarian Services Development Minister Maithripala Sirisena
escaped an LTTE carried out suicide attack at Pirivena junction
in the Boralesgamuwa area of Colombo district. A female suicide
cadre blew herself targeting Minister Sirisena’s motorcade at
Pirivena junction around 1.15 pm (SLST) when the Minister was
returning after a Government function in the Bandaragama area.
The Minister escaped unhurt. A civilian was killed and five
others including Deputy Minister Siripala Gamlath and newly
appointed Ministry Secretary Ranjith Wijethilaka were injured.
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57.
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October 12
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Sri Lankan media reported that
10 LTTE suicide cadres are in Colombo city waiting to hit more
strategically important targets when ordered by their leaders.
A recently arrested LTTE intelligence cadre from Wellawatta
has reportedly revealed this information. Media reports also
claimed that 30 intelligence cadres have entered the Colombo
city gathering tactical and strategic information for their
next terror act. They are suspected to be using uniforms similar
to what is being used by the Sri Lanka armed forces and the
Police Department.
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58.
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October 20
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A minor explosion occurred in the CBS in Colombo.
The explosion took place under a Sri Lanka Transport Board bus
belonging to the CBS damaging three buses.
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59.
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October 23
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One hand grenade was recovered
by the troops on duty in the Maradana area of Colombo district.
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60.
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October 28
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An LTTE aircraft dropped two
bombs targeting the Kelanitissa power station in Colombo. However,
no casualties were reported. According to military spokesman
Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara the blast caused a minor fire at
the power station which was doused by the fire-fighters. Later,
the air defence system in Colombo and suburbs was activated
and the electricity supply to the city was suspended as a precautionary
measure.
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61.
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November 11
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Police found two high frequency
transmission receivers inside a nine-storey building at Nawam
Mawatha in Colombo.
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62.
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November 13
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Troops recovered a LTTE suicide
jacket, filled with 1-kg of C-4 explosives kept hidden under
the staircase of an abandoned commercial complex at Bangalawatte
in the Wattala area, a suburb along the Colombo- Negombo road
in the Colombo district.
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63.
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November 14
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The Personal Secretary to the
Eastern Province Chief Minister and TMVP leader Sivanesathurai
Chandrakanthan a. k. a. Pillayan and his driver were assassinated
by suspected LTTE militants at Oruwela in the Athurugiriya area
of Colombo district. Pillayan’s Co-ordinating Secretary Kumara-swamy
Nandagopan a. k. a. Ragu had contested at the Eastern Provincial
election as the main TMVP candidate for the Trincomalee district.
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64.
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December 2
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Negombo Police arrested three
youths allegedly running a high powered communication centre
in the area, suspected to be linked to the LTTE According to
police, the suspects who were from Jaffna have been operating
this communication centre from a Canal Road residence in Negombo
for some time. All three youths, in the age group of 23 to 28
years, are believed to have had links with a group in Germany,
police said. The police also seized some of the equipment used
for the operations of the high powered communication centre.
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65.
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December 6
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The Keselwatta Police conducted
a search on St. Sebastian flats at Gunasinghe Pura in capital
Colombo and recovered one T-56 weapon, one T-56 magazine and
55 rounds of ammunition. One suspect was detained in this connection.
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66.
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December 15
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Two claymore mines of 6.75 kilogram
each were recovered by Police from Ragama in Colombo District.
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67.
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December 18
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The CCD arrested three extortionists
while they were attempting to extort SLR 500,000 from a businessman
in Colombo in the guise of LTTE militants. Senior Superintendent
of Police, Ranjith Gunasekera, said the three extortionists
had been threatening a businessman in Colombo and demanding
a ransom of SLR two million claiming they were LTTE militants.
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68.
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December 19
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A suspected LTTE militant who
attempted to explode a bomb inside a bus was arrested at Meegoda
in the Padukka area of Colombo District, Military spokesman
Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
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69.
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December 28
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Eight persons were killed when
a suspected LTTE suicide bomber blew himself after entering
the premises of a Civil Defence Force (CDF) post at Wattala
in the Colombo District. One Army officer, six CDF personnel
and one civilian died while 17 others sustained injuries.
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70.
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December 29
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A minor explosion targeted an
electric transformer at Golumada Junction along the Galle Road
in the Ratmalana area of Colombo District. Police said the explosion,
which occurred around 8.45pm, did not damage the transformer
though there was minor damage only to the two towers on which
the transformer was fitted.
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71.
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December 30
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An unidentified assailant shot
the chief priest of the Kali Kovil (Hindu Temple) at Negombo
in the Colombo District. Negombo Police said the victim, identified
as Muttiah Sivaprakashan, was shot inside his house at about
11:30pm (SLST).
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