A total of 1,118 individuals belonging to 310 families of the Athawetunaweva village in the Welioya, are now settled in a school in the adjacent Parakramapura town, being displaced following the LTTE mortar attacks on 31st May,2007.
The civilians fled the border village which was populated by ethnic Sinhalese in fear for life as the terrorists continued firing mortars indiscriminately. A SL Army soldier was killed and five others including two civilian suffered injuries.
The President has ordered urgent relief to the villagers, with additional food provisions and medicine for the displaced. According to divisional authorities majority of the displaced are women and children.
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