Navy destroys 02 Sea Tiger boats, captures 02
Continuing it’s heavy onslaught on LTTE’s desperate attempts to attack the well fortified Naval cordon in the seas off Vellemullivaikkal today (9th May 2009) around 0300 hrs SLN destroyed 01 LTTE sea tiger suicide boat and 01 LTTE attack craft and captured another LTTE suicide boat with an attack craft, killing 14 sea tiger carders on board.
Two bodies of sea tiger carders (male and female) were also recovered and captured craft in the predawn Naval gun battle launched by the combined Naval forces of Fast Attack Crafts (FAC), Special Boat Squadron (SBS), and Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS ) a cluster of LTTE sea tiger boats comprising two suicide craft laden with high explosive and two enemy attack crafts were intercepted and attacked. Naval troops optimizing their combined fire power completely destroyed one enemy suicide craft and captured one with two enemy dead bodies on board, while destroying one enemy attack craft and captured another which were attempting to flee being unable to withstand the Naval onslaught.
Monitoring of the LTTE communications has revealed that 14 sea tiger carders have been killed in the gun battle. Further search and clear operations are continuing.
Courtesy: SL Navy
