Subsequently troops recovered a body of a terrorist. During the day troops recovered 45 anti personnel mines in general area Kunchukkulam.
Troops continue to dominate areas ahead of defences.
In another incident during daytime at Nagarakovil in the Jaffna district, troops on a search and clear operation recovered 32 hand grenades from the area. On the same day around 5 pm at Ittavil in the Jaffna district, on information troops recovered two 60mm bombs and two anti personnel mines and around 2 pm at Kilinochchi troops sniped and killed one terrorist. Meanwhile on July 20 around 11.40 am at Kilinochchi, troops in ambush observed three terrorists moving towards them and engaged with small arms killing two. The other escaped with injuries. On the same day around 9.30 pm South of Kachchativu out at sea, Naval craft on patrol detected three fast moving terrorist craft moving towards India and engaged them with Naval guns.