Colombo, Apr 27 (ANI): The banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelams (LTTE) two light aircrafts have dropped three bombs on the Sri Lankan military positions in Weli-Oya, 280 km northeast of Colombo, early this morning, military sources said.
The attack did not injure anybody and nothing was damaged. The LTTE planes have returned safely to their hideouts in the Wanni after the incident, military spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
The LTTE has carried out five air raids against Sri Lankan military and economic targets until October last year, and this is the first LTTE aerial attack in six months, after October 22 last year when a group of LTTE suicide guerrillas carried out a commando-style attack on a Sri Lankan Air Force base in Anuradhapura.
Meanwhile, the Sri Lankan military said that they have captured the first line of defence of the rebels after Wednesday's fierce fighting in the Jaffna peninsula where at least 150 combatants were killed and over 500 wounded.
On Friday, Sri Lanka announced that its troops had captured the Catholic Madhu church in the district of Mannar in the northwest from the Tamil Tigers.
Tamil Tiger rebels using light aircraft bombed two military targets in northeastern Sri Lanka on Sunday and wounded at least one soldier, security sources said.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) hit two targets in the Weli Oya region, where security forces had launched a fresh ground offensive against the rebels on Saturday.
"They dropped three bombs at the two locations and flew back," a top military source said.
"The damage caused is insignificant, but the attack is symbolic and shows they have coordinates of military installations," he added.
The Czech-built Zlin-143 aircraft managed to withdraw unchallenged despite new anti-aircraft defences set up by the military in the island's northern and eastern regions, the sources said.
There was no immediate word either from the defence ministry or the rebels about the air strike.
The Tigers staged their last air raid in October, when they conducted a commando-style ground attack against the main military airbase in the north-central town of Anuradhapura.
The rebels coordinated the ground attack with an aerial strike against the Anuradhapura airbase, destroying a large number of aircraft at the military facility.
Since then, the military has improved its air defences and inducted more sophisticated radar to detect clandestine flying by the guerrillas, who are known to operate at least three air strips in areas under their control. (ANI)
