STAFF SERGEANT KILLED AND TWO OTHER SOLDIERS INJURED IN A LTTE CLAYMORE ATTACK IN VAVUNIYA
(By Walter Jayawardhana)
Los Angeles:- Staff Sergeant P. K. D. Alwis was killed and two other soldiers were severely injured in a LTTE claymore blast in Vavuniya.
The army said suspected LTTE terrorists waiting in ambush activated the claymore explosion against a moving tractor in which Alwis and two more colleagues were traveling for administrative duties.
The tractor received heavy damages and thrown off by the severe blast caused by the plastic explosives of the claymore. The army vehicle was attacked at Settikulam near Vavuniya July 24 around 8.40 a.m.
The army said the injured have been admitted to the Anuradhapura Hospital.
The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has been informed.
