Sri Lanka - Heavy SF shelling Kills 15 Injures 30 including children in Mulaitivu
G. Vickram - TNS
Mulaitivu - 15 civilians were killed including five children when barrages of shell fired by Sri Lankan Security Forces (SF) from 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday hit Visuvamadu, Udayrakaddu, Suthanthirapuram, and Manikapuram internally displaced civilians in Mulaitivu area. At least 30 civilians also were badly wounded according to the sources in Mulaitivu.
6 shells fell on an area where 25 families were internally displaced and lived together. This attack alone 2 people were killed including a young boy. SF troopers' indiscriminate aerial and shell attacks killed hundreds and many hundreds injured within past few months while displaced over 350,000 including 40,000 children who are living in subhuman conditions.
A catastrophic situation developed in Vanni for these innocent civilians as they are facing annihilation as indiscriminate land, sea, and air attacks on them by the Sri Lankan forces in 400 sq miles Mulaitivu area daily. These people facing severe shortages of food, medicines, drinking water and other basic necessities in this area as severe blockade was imposed upon by the state on them for past many months, an IDP representative said.
