Sri Lanka: All three forces joint attack - 84 killed - 26-Apr-09

by senthil5000 | April 26, 2009 at 09:49 am

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26-Apr-2009,Sunday

Sri Lankan Air force , Sri Lankan Navy and Sri Lankan Army joined in today's attack killing 84 civilians and 124 were injured. Also a huge number of civilians including childrens died when they are admitted to the hospital.

38 deadly bombs dropped in to displaced civilian settlements in Mullivaikkal; 84 civilians were killed and 124 were injured in today's offensive attack by all three wings of the Sri lankan Military.

Sri Lankan Air Force intensified its air attack while artillery attack by Sri Lankan Army and Navy continued targeting civilian settlements in Mullivaikkal.

Sri Lankan Air Force's Kfir-F7 and MIC 27 attacked the displaced civilian settlements in Mullivaikkal South 9 times from morning till evening today(7.30 am, 8.15 am, 9.30 am, 10 am, 10. 35 am 11.05am, 1 pm, 1.50 pm, and 2.05 pm), said Tamil National Reporter . 38 bombs were dropped in to the densly popualted civilian settlements.

In yesterday's shelling, air and navy attack on Valaignarmadam and Pokkanai areas 321 civilians were killed.

Civilians from Valaignarmadam moved in to Mullivaikal. 154 civilians injured in those attacks were brought to Mullivaikkal hospital and 15 died after admission.

According to hospital sources another 84 injured were admitted today to the hospital and 14 of them died after admission.

Though people had little hope that the visit of John Holmes will make some improvement in the situation and were waiting for the food ship but it did not happen.