Today's Top Story Troops recover large arms haul in Jaffna Troops have recovered a large cache of arms hidden by the LTTE in underground concrete dumps in the Jaffna Peninsula. Meanwhile on July 11, around 11.10 a.m. in the Pulmaichchinatikulam area troops operating ahead of defences observed a terrorist movement and engaged them with small arms killing one terrorist. Other terrorists fled the area with their casualties. During day time on the same day troops operating East of Mankulam sniped and killed two terrorists. Around 11 a.m. Northwest of Kunchukkulam, troops cleared a terrorist bunker and recovered 1500 7.62 ammunition and 15 hand grenades.
Troops continue to dominate areas ahead of defences.
On the same day around 5.20 p.m. at Kilinochchi, on information given by ground troops, Kafir ground attack air craft of the Sri Lanka Air Force effectively engaged an identified terrorist target in the area. Monitored terrorists transmissions confirmed that 11 terrorists were killed and 17 injured due to the air attack. Also around 7.45 a.m. on the same day at Kilinochchi, troops operating forward of the defences sniped and killed one terrorist. Investigations revealed that the local fishermen never used that type of fishing boats. Four Indian nationals have been detained until the completion of the investigations.