Jets pound suspected LTTE base amid fighting

From correspondents in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 10:03 PM IST Amid reports of sporadic clashes between the advancing government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas, Sri Lanka's air force bombed a suspected rebel training base Tuesday, officials said. 'The air force launched two successive air raids targeting LTTE logistic facility in Paranthan (in the north). The first attack was launched around 10.15 a.m while the other around 1.30 p.m.,' the defence ministry said. Details of the damages caused were not immediately known. According to the ministry, two soldiers were killed and another was wounded at Arasadikulam in Vavuniya Tuesday when the troops confronted with a group of cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). 'The army foot patrol was along the Arasadikulam-Gandhinagar route when a group of terrorists directed... [read full story]