Lankan troops capture LTTE training camp

Colombo: Intensifying their offensive on the cornered Tamil Tigers, Sri Lankan fighter jets today blasted a boat carrying a number of rebels in Jaffna waters while troops gunned down five LTTE cadres and captured a guerrilla training camp elsewhere in the embattled north, the military said.

"Sri Lanka Air Force fighter jets successfully targeted retreating LTTE cadre in the area of Chundikulam in Jaffna today," the Air Force said.

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Separately, the airstrikes destroyed a "large boatload" of LTTE rebels in the Chundikulam lagoon in Jaffna this morning, it said. Many Tiger rebels may have been killed in the attack, officials said.

The troops are pushing further into the last remaining LTTE strongholds in the once rebel-dominated northern Sri Lanka after capturing the LTTE de facto capital of Kilinocchchi and the startegic Elephant Pass in recent days.

In latest clashes at Vaddakachchi and Kandavalai areas near Kilinochchi, troops killed at least five LTTE cadre, the army said.

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Besides the dead bodies of the rebels, the troops also recovered 1000 rounds of T-56 ammunition, four T-56 weapos, communication sets and an ammunition box.

The task force of the army captured an LTTE training camp at Aiyamperumal in Mullaittivu yesterday afternoon, the military said adding, the facility had underground bunkers. The troops also recovered military hardware from the region.

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