SLA launches artillery barrage in Northern FDL

[TamilNet, Sunday, 29 July 2007, 04:00 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna has launched a barrage of artillery shells Sunday early morning into Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) territory across the Northern Forward Defence Line of the Tigers. The artillery barrage continued for more than 4 hours.

Heavy artillery firing from Sri Lankan positions in Jaffna started at 4:20 a.m.

Normalcy in Vanni has been disturbed as the Sri Lankan forces are stepping up air, naval and ground attacks in the recent days.