Today's Top Story Situation report The Defence Ministry yesterday issued the following press release on the North-East situation.
Troops continue to dominate areas ahead of defence.
Terrorists fled the area carrying their dead and wounded. On a subsequent search troops recovered three T56 weapons, a T81 weapon, a G3A3 weapon, two RPG rounds and four claymore mines. Bomb defused from Ananda Pathiraja and Vavuniya group correspondent P. Piyadasa Security personnel discovered a time bomb planted between two fuel pumps at a fuel filling station in the Vavuniya town yesterday morning. A bomb disposal unit defused the bomb soon after its discovery. Police with security personnel are investigating.