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Navy destroys 02 Sea Tiger boats, captures 02; 14 Sea Tigers killed - off
Mullaittivu seas
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Colombo News Desk CND on 10 May, 2009 12:09:00
 
Two bodies of sea tiger carders (male and female) were also recovered and
captured craft in the predawn Naval gun battle launched by the combined Naval
forces of Fast Attack Crafts (FAC), Special Boat Squadron (SBS), and Rapid
Action Boat Squadron (RABS ) a cluster of LTTE sea tiger boats comprising two
suicide craft laden with high explosive and two enemy attack crafts were
intercepted and attacked. Naval troops optimizing their combined fire power
completely destroyed one enemy suicide craft and captured one with two enemy
dead bodies on board, while destroying one enemy attack craft and captured
another which were attempting to flee being unable to withstand the Naval
onslaught.   Monitoring of the LTTE communications has revealed that 14 sea
tiger carders have been killed in the gun battle. Further search and clear
operations are continuing.