MULLAITTIVU: IN the past twelve hours ending Tuesday (21) at 8.30 p.m. another total of 21,534 trapped civilians in the “No Fire Zone” entered the cleared areas, held by Army troops in PUTHUMATTALAN, thereby increasing the entire total escapees to 62,609 during 20-21 April 2009.
58 Division troops received 48,501 civilians during those two days, 55 Division troops 10,743, 53 Division troops 98 and Naval troops a total of 3267 as of Tuesday (21) night. All of them have been transported to temporary shelters using over 175 odd state buses organized by the government.
Ministry of Defence on the instructions of Secretary Defence GOTABHAYA RAJAPAKSA who has also been one of the major brainchild behind the rescue operation in PUTHUMATTALAN has taken steps to dispatch thousands of food packets including snacks to fleeing civilians. They were airlifted throughout the whole day time.
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