The Army has only 400 meters to reach the Puthukudirippu Town center. Heavy fighting raged on as both sides clashed for this final bastion. SLA is using heavy armour extensively as Tigers had removed civilians from the Town today. The town is expected to fall within the next 48hrs.
However, Tiger teams have infiltrated along the A-9. An STF ambush party was counter ambushed by Tigers in the general area north of Vavuniya at Puliyankulam.
Regarding the Zlin 143 attack, there is no confirmation of a pilot captured alive. Sources say the first plane downed on the IRD building following anti-aircraft gunfire. over 40 persons, majority civilians were injured in the downing of the plane. One person later died. The other plane went down at Welabada following F7 attack.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Puthukudirippu about to fall
Posted by Defencewire at 11:35 PM 1345 comments
TAF bombs Inland Revenue Dept. UPDATED
Suspected Tamil Tiger airplanes have bombed Colombo again. Bombs fell on the Inland Revenue Department building causing a fire a while ago. The Department is situated next to Air Force Headquarters on Malay Street in Pettah.
One of the two planes have been downed near Katunayake. Body of a pilot recovered. The planes took-off from Puthukudirippu at 8.30pm and was immediately detected by the SLA. They entered Colombo around 9.30pm and missed their target and bombed IRD instead. It was on their way back that the F7 Jets intercepted one. Army was waiting for the other to land but couldn't engage because of civilian settlements.
Posted by Defencewire at 10:38 PM 148 comments