SLA DPU unit suffers casualties in LTTE counter-ambush

[TamilNet, Sunday, 03 June 2007, 16:50 GMT]
Liberation Tigers counter-ambushed a Deep Penetration Unit inside their territory in Paalamoaddai in Vavuniyaa Mannaar border Sunday evening around 5 p.m. The DPU unit suffered casualties and withdrew leaving behind a dead body, four Claymore mines and a T-56 rifle.

The DPU unit withdrew from the area with further casualties, according to Irasiah Ilanthirayan, the military spokesman of the LTTE.