NORTH: ARMY troops conducted search and clear operations in the general areas of MANKULAM, PALAYADIKULAM, PUTHUKKUDIYIRUPPU, SANGEDIKULAM and KUPPILANKULAM and recovered four LTTE T-56 weapons, one pistol, one anti aircraft gun, one 81 mm mortar booby trap, sixteen hand grenades, seven-thousand-three hundred and fifty rounds of T-56 ammunition, three hundred and fifty rounds of 12.7 mm ammunition, one 12.7 mm drum, one T-56 magazine, one hundred and sixty rounds of M-16 ammunition, one Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) launcher, thirty RPG rounds, thirteen Light Machine Gun (LMG) drums, three unidentified bombs, one 81 mm mortar bomb, one 120 mm mortar bomb, thirty-two rounds of General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) ammunition, eleven Multi Purpose Machine Gun (MPMG) links and three hundred and seventy-five crackers on Wednesday (5).
