COLOMBO: Military intelligence has gathered information that there is a secret location within the Wilpattu National Park where an LTTE light aircraft could land and take off. The location adjoining the Milewilla, Periyawillu and Periyakatti irrigation tanks, facing Mannar, has been used to hide the aircraft. According to information received, the Tiger aircraft, after landing, is ferried across a specially built canal to this secret location. The place where the aircraft are reported to be hidden and the adjoining areas have been well secured by the LTTE.
On May 27 last year, seven local tourists were killed when their jeep was blasted by a landmine within the Wilpattu National Park. Later, eight servicemen including Col. Jayantha Sumeda Suraweera of the Anuradhapura Gajaba Regiment, were also killed in a similar blast around the same location
These blasts occurred at a location in close proximity to the three irrigation tanks where the LTTE aircraft are said to be hidden. This further confirms the information received by the military intelligence that the LTTE could have set off the blasts to thwart anyone getting closer to the secret location where the aircraft have been hidden.
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