2 SLA killed in Naakarkoayil FDL clash - LTTE

[TamilNet, Thursday, 20 December 2007, 09:35 GMT]
Two Sri Lanka Army soldiers were killed and a fresh attempt by the SLA to advance towards the Forward Defence Line of the Liberation Tigers at Naakarkoayil in Vadamaraadchi East was thwarted Thursday around 1:00 p.m., according to the Northern Front Operations Command of the LTTE. The Tigers recovered a SLA dead body. One T-56-2 rifle was among the military accessories seized in the counter-attack, the LTTE said.

The body of the dead SLA soldier, located in the clearing mission after the counter-attack, was in highly decomposed state and the Tigers buried the body with military honors, the LTTE said.

There were no Tiger casualties.

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