Sri Lanka troops capture rebel airstrip
24/12/2008 17:28
Sri Lanka's government troops who are on the forward march in the island's
north have captured a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) airstrip, defense
officials said today.
The 200-meter-long and 20-meter-wide airstrip was
located 15 km east of Mankulam, a town captured this week by the Army's Task
Force 3. This was the 3rd rebel airstrip that has fallen under government
control in the current military operations, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya
Nanayakkara told reporters.
The LTTE using its light aircraft have carried
out some eight air raids on different locations since March 2007.
Meanwhile
the Sri Lanka Airforce had conducted three separate air raids this morning, the
Airforce spokesman Janaka Nanayakkara said.
Nanayakkara added that the raids
successfully targeted Paranthan and Muhamalai forward defense lines of the
rebels.
Xinhua
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