MULLAITTIVU: TROOPS who pierced a section of another LTTE earth bund in the stretch of land between the A-35 road and the NANTHIKADAL lagoon on Sunday (3) expanded their advance by another 250 metres as dusk fell on Monday (4) while closing in on KARAYANMULLIVAIKKAI.
53 Division troops commanded by Major General Kamal Gunarathna after tactfully overcoming LTTE resistance, later found four LTTE motorbikes, four T-56 weapons, two T-81 weapons, two GPS, two compasses, one tractor engine, 45 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, 1900 machine gun ammunition rounds, one Canon still camera, twenty-four personal diaries, forty machine gun rounds and a few more LTTE items from the newly captured areas.
