Gopi and two LTTErs killed [April 11 2014]

Kajeepan Ponniah Selvanayagam alias Kasian alias Gopi and two other LTTE supporters were shot dead during the wee hours of today when they attempted to flee the Army cordon set up to capture them. All three were killed during the confrontation.

The other two were killed in the confrontation and were identified as Sundaralingam Kajeepan alias Thevian and Navarathnam Navaneethan alias Appan. Thevian was identified as one of the LTTE key figures involved in aerial attacks on the Anuradhapura Air Base and Kollonnawa Petroleum Storage in 2007.

On March 10, 2014 troops in a search operation in the jungle areas off Padaviya recovered four back-packs containing items such as pre-cooked food, medicine, clothes which were believed to be used by these terrorists, said Military Spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigassooriya.