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LTTE Celebrates Sinhala &;amp; Hindu New Year Killing Three more Innocent Civilians

MONARAGALA: TIGER TERRORISTS once again showed their barbarism killing three more innocent civilians in GALTEM ARA remote village in MONARAGALA Monday (13) evening.

     Villagers were getting ready to celebrate the Sinhala and Hindu New Year to dawn within a few hours when the armed LTTE terrorists stormed the village and opened fire at the villagers killing two elderly women and one male.

     Police also found one more women with severe cut injuries.

     Police suspect that the same group of LTTE gunmen who massacred nine civilians in MAHAGODAYAYA in the same area on the previous day is involved in this latest brutal act of violence.

     LTTE killed nine civilians in MAHAGODAYAYA on Sunday (12). (See Situation Report on 13th April 2009)

     The MONARAGALA Police are conducting investigations.