SF ambush kills 17 infiltrators

Yesterday(28th march) an 8 man team of Special Forces 3 successfully ambushed a group of tiger infiltrators in the Thevipuram area.This was a part of the group of tigers who had infiltrated into the government controlled area during the LTTE counter operation early March.During this operation almost half the LTTE attackers got wiped out by SLA commandos while most of others retreated with their dead and wounded.A few tigers managed to infiltrate through the FDL of the 58th division.Then teams of Special Forces troops were deployed in the area to take out these cadres.

Troops of both SF3 and 4 have confronted with these cadres and have caused damaged to them.Yesterdays ambush was a lot successful as troops were able to take a RPG operator who had been a headache for a while.They have also recovered bodies of all the dead cadres including this RPG operator's body.SF soldiers have suffered 3 casualties including 1 KIA.

Now the remaining LTTE units are operating in an area of approximately 3 square kms outside the CSZ.The forward advance of troops has been slowed due to the counter attacks of LTTE and also the inability to use heavy fire power due to the civilian factor.But the army has been able to hold on to its lines and today they have advanced around 350m into LTTE held territory towards the CSZ.So steady progress like this means the remaining ares of tigers will be captured slowly inflicting heavy damage to the terrorists.

We recommend our readers to read the article of The Long Ranger on MOUT to have a fair idea about the current ground situation.