A handout released by the LTTE website Tamilnet shows LTTE rebels fire their weapons at Sri Lankan soldiers in the village of Akkaraayan in the rebel held district of Vanni. Helicopter gunships attacked Tamil Tiger rebel positions in northern Sri Lanka as battles shifted onto a key highway leading to the rebels' political capital. (AFP/HO/File/Ho)From Yahoo News/AFP:
COLOMBO (AFP) – Helicopter gunships attacked Tamil Tiger rebel positions in northern Sri Lanka as battles shifted onto a key highway leading to the rebels' political capital, the defence ministry said.
Helicopters were deployed to pound rebel bunkers that make up the western defences of the town of Kilinochchi, the political headquarters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the ministry said.
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