Three SLA wounded in grenade attack

[TamilNet, Sunday, 18 November 2001, 09:23 GMT]
Three Sri Lanka army soldiers were wounded when a grenade was lobbed at a military truck in Batticaloa town around 1 p.m. Sunday, Police sources in the east said. The Thaandanvanveli sector of the town was cordoned and searched by the Police and the Special Task Force (STF) following the attack.

The wounded soldiers were rushed to the Batticaloa hospital. Troops from camps surrounding the eastern town were moved into the Thaandavanveli area after the attack.