SriLanka Navy's elite Special Boat Squadron (SBS), Fast Attack Craft (FAC) and Rapid Action Boat squadron (RABS) destroyed three sea tiger boats killing twenty three sea tigers in the seas off Mullaittivu around 1.00 AM today (1st May 2009).
The vigilant Naval troops engaged a combined cluster of two sea tiger suicide crafts and one attack craft which attempted abortively to launch a suicide attack against the Naval crafts deployed on patrolling in the seas off Mullaittivu in the early hours today. Two suicide crafts laden with high explosives and one enemy attack craft were completely destroyed by the Naval gun fire while killing 23 sea tiger cardres. Mean while the monitoring of sea tiger communication has revealed that LTTE sea tigers have suffered severe casualties in this confrontation.
The round the clock vigilance maintained by alert Naval troops on continuous Naval patrol close to the now fast- diminishing enemy strong hold, has been instrumental in thwarting LTTE's Last ditch desperate sea tiger attacks on ground troops. The Navy's patrol crafts have recently been able to inflict heavy enemy cadre and vessel losses on the LTTE sea tigers. Naval fortifications have been tightened with multiple defense barriers consisting of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs), Fast Gun Boats (FGBs), Fast Attack Craft (FACs), the Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS) and the Special Boat Squadron (SBS).
Continuous shore-based radar surveillance is also being carried out in order to compliment Naval units to prevent remaining LTTE cadres from launching desperate attacks on advancing Security Forces personnel and to cut off the fleeing attempts of tiger leaders trapped in the No Fire Zone.
Courtesy: SL Navy
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