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Tamil Tiger aircraft attack Sri Lanka capital
Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:04pm EST
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By Ranga Sirilal and C. Bryson Hull
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Two Tamil Tiger planes launched a defiant air raid on Sri Lanka's capital Colombo on Friday, killing two people and injuring 40 when one crash-landed onto a government building.
The other was shot down at the international airport.
The attack is the latest proof of the Tigers' ability to strike far from the war zone, where troops have rapidly encircled them in just 87 sq km (34 sq miles) of jungle and are fighting to end a separatist war that began in 1983.
The capital is some 350 km (217 miles) to the southwest.
The military said one plane was gunned down in anti-aircraft fire over the, while the other was shot and crashed into the Inland Revenue building in Colombo's Fort area near the main port.
The thundering of anti-aircraft guns erupted over Colombo's streets and tracer fire and spotlights lit up the skies, darkened after authorities cut the power when one plane was spotted on radar flying down the east coast.
"We have shot one down in Katunayake and found the wreckage and the body of the pilot," defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said, referring to the international airport. Later, he said plane wreckage had been found at the tax building.
Hospital officials said 40 were injured, and the military said two people were killed at the Inland Revenue building.
"I saw a fireball entering the Inland Revenue building and the building caught fire," a security guard at the neighboring TransAsia luxury hotel told Reuters Television.
Rambukwella had said earlier the plane had dropped a bomb.
"The Inland Revenue was not a bomb. It was the plane which got shot and crashed into the Inland Revenue building," Rambukwella said later. He said he had been in the harbor at the time and saw the building get hit.
WRECKAGE SHOWN
State television showed the wreckage of the plane downed at the airport in a marsh right outside the military base in the complex, its green and brown camouflaged body wrenched apart and its fuselage riddled with bullet holes.
Nearby lay the body of the pilot, dressed in the LTTE's trademark Tiger stripe combat fatigues.
It was the tenth sortie by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) "Air Tigers" since they launched in March 2007 what is believed to be the only combat air fleet operated by an insurgent group or any group on U.S. and E.U. terrorism lists. Continued...
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