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Sri Lanka Navy Foils Sea Borne Terrorist Attacks on Merchant Ships

Posted: 22 Oct 2008 08:20 AM CDT

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Sri Lanka Navy successfully foiled a LTTE suicide attack on two merchant ships carrying humanitarian assistance to the Northern Sri Lanka. This happened in the Northern seas of Sri Lanka at 0510 hours local time on October 22.

This sea borne terrorism of LTTE, to attack on merchant ships exclusively chartered for humanitarian purposes deserves to be condemned by seafaring community.

Some of the interesting features of the Sri Lanka Navy’s operation are:

  • ‘MV Nimalawa’ and ‘MV Ruhunu’ were carrying essential supplies to the Tamil civilians caught in the battle affected northern part of  Sri Lanka.
  • Three LTTE suicide boats attempted to ram on the merchant ships to sink the ships. The aim was to disrupt essential supplies to the Tamil civilians caught in the battle.
  • The alert Sri Lanka Navy sailors, providing security onboard, targeted the suicide boats with machine gun fire and destroyed two of the boats before ramming on the ships.
  • Out of the two boats destroyed, one exploded in close proximity to ‘MV Nimalawa’ causing a considerable damage to the ship’s hull.
  • Third suicide boat was captured by the Sri Lanka Navy patrol craft in the area.
  • The Navy suffered no casualties during the incident.

Here are some photographs of the Sri Lanka Navy’s operation:

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Here is an interesting video clip of Sri Lanka Navy’s silent battle against sea borne terrorism.

All the above photographs are from Sri Lanka Navy and for more details, log on to Sri Lanka Navy.

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