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Number of Victims in Buttala Rises to Nine

(2nd Update)

BUTTALA: POLICE TEAMS conducting investigations have so far recovered a total of nine dead bodies of innocent civilians who were brutally killed by Tiger terrorists at MAHAGODAYAYA village, BUTTALA, last evening (12).

According to latest reports, one and half year of old infant boy, seven and eleven  year old two children, three woman and three more men were among the injured who succumbed to injuries. Police also found one more elderly women (75) who however narrowly saved her life with severe injuries.  

An irate group of LTTE terrorists who infiltrated into the area have committed this massacre on innocent civilians, Police confirmed.