Latest


Sri Lanka: 15 killed in shootout between troops and Islamist militants

  •   Sat, Apr 27 2019 10:00:09 AM

Colombo, Apr 27 (IANS): Fifteen bodies were recovered after a fierce gun battle between Sri Lankan forces and an armed group near Batticaloa, police said on Saturday.

Officers acting on a tip-off had launched a raid on Friday night in Ampara Sainthamaruthu and the armed group set off an explosion which triggered the gun battle, the BBC reported.

When troops moved in after dawn on Saturday, they found the bodies of 15 people.

In another raid in the same town, the police found Islamic State (IS) flags, 150 sticks of gelignite, thousands of steel pellets and a drone camera, a military spokesman said.

On Friday, 10 people were arrested from across the country bringing the number detained since the Easter Sunday bombings to 80.

Sunday's explosions killed 253 people and injured over 500 in one of the bloodiest days in Sri Lanka since the civil was ended a decade ago.
  

Top Stories

Mangaluru: Walk-in Aikya residential apartment inaugurated at Bikarnakatte

  •   6 hours ago   

Comment on this article

  • Gilbert, Udupi/Kuwait

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Sri Lankan forces with foreign intelligence forces must wipe out Islamic terrorists for good. Even they must find out foreign supporters of terrorists and held accountable for the barbaric bombings on Easter Sunday.

    DisAgree Agree [3] Reply Report Abuse

  • Shakil, Udupi

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    My dear shoaib sheikh,
    For any religion to think it is "peaceful", then by logic it should have also thought about violence, to compare its "peace" with the potential violence that it could generate...nothing exists in a vacuum, dear...so if you say it is a peaceful religion you are comparing its present day peacefulness to what kind of benchmark? Peace or violence connot be an absolute ..I hope have made myself clear. ..when u say something is dark for example, you are consciously or subconsciously comparing it to something lighter, even if that object is nowhere close by.

    DisAgree Agree [3] Reply Report Abuse

  • Richard, India

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Each of the bombers had the support of a family, a community, friends and financiers. Sri Lanka has an opportunity of rounding up the family and friends of each of these persons and eliminate them.

    It is yet to be seen if Sri Lanka will act effectively like Israel ,or allow the cancer to grow .

    DisAgree [4] Agree [13] Reply Report Abuse

  • abdulla, india

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Why should the Innocent Die..???
    whose fault is this..
    where does it start and what is their Ideology..philosophy.. End Goal?
    Is it the BLOOD..MISERY..PAIN..SUFFERING....CHAOS..MISTRUST?
    so, now can the civilized world wait and watch and only Sympathise?
    or take effective..drastic action?
    to rid of this Cancer?
    Root them out from its ROOT..Sanitize ..
    needs:
    1/Inter faith: Religious Tolerance ..discussions.. to understand their Ideology...
    2/All Financiers and the Brains behind these like Mercenaries..: Drugs: Gold: cash dealers should all be
    traced..tracked and eliminated.
    like the Israelis do.
    one by one....

    DisAgree [4] Agree [7] Reply Report Abuse

  • H. A Dsouza, Damoh

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    With out support from the your community it is not possible to eradicate this menance.
    The concept of jihadi is very dangerous to entire world. Why there is no terrorism in other faith ? Jesus said Iam the way truth and Life. He called his followers as light and salt of the Earth.

    DisAgree [1] Agree [16] Reply Report Abuse

  • Moshu, mangaluru

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Battikalova region is a strong hold of LTTE. It's the time to take rebirth of Prabhaker behind ISIS flag which might have taken for granted of recent bombings.

    DisAgree [22] Agree Reply Report Abuse

  • Kishore Kumar, Mangaluru

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    LTTE fought mainly on linguistic basis, whose members were both Hindus & Christians and Tamil Muslims were purposefully kept out of this group. The present attack is mainly on religious basis by the Islamist group.

    DisAgree Agree [7] Reply Report Abuse

  • Chowkidar Shankar, Mangaluru

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    I do agree that all Muslims are not bad. And also I agree that terrorism can not be linked to any religion.

    But going by the facts, most of the terrorist problems have origins to only one religion, across the globe, except for some scattered incidences like the one in Christchurch. There should be something wrong in the religion, or the book, or the interpretations of the book or the basic religious education provided!

    DisAgree [3] Agree [29] Reply Report Abuse

  • Shoaib Sheik, Mangalore/Dubai

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Chowkidar, Yes all Muslims are not bad and you cannot link terrorism with any religion as we don't link Mecca masjid blast and few blast with Hindu religion(done by so called saviors of Hindu religion).

    There is nothing wrong with Islam and Qur'an, Yes I agree that some Muslims become terrorist and but those acts of these people I don't think its terrorizing but its cowardly act done by them in the name of Religion. Islam came as a religion of PEACE and its the religion of PEACE.
    If Islam would have taught violence then we would have not spared any crusaders when we conquered Al Quds.

    DisAgree [25] Agree [11] Reply Report Abuse

  • mohan, Mangalore

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    All must be given death sentences

    DisAgree Agree [14] Reply Report Abuse

  • Dagalbaji, Dubai

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Hi ho.

    DisAgree Agree [5] Reply Report Abuse

  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangaluru

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    This is a inhuman act of the fanatics which is really shameful to the mankind.

    DisAgree Agree [21] Reply Report Abuse

  • Dingha Lal, Maveenakatte

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Do anybody thought such things happen in our backyard. First of all how we trust them. There mind only revolves around religion nothing else. It's dangerous thing to the society. They teached same thing from the beginning calling others kafirs.

    DisAgree Agree [9] Reply Report Abuse

  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    Eradicate these Rats ...

    DisAgree Agree [33] Reply Report Abuse

  • Dingha Lal, Maveenakatte

    Sat, Apr 27 2019

    It looks like Islamic militants are after to control country in there own hand..had planned in a big way. Wants to investigate in detail and keep watch even in chennai shore. Kill them instantly without thinking..as no option left.

    DisAgree Agree [46] Reply Report Abuse


Leave a Comment

Title: Sri Lanka: 15 killed in shootout between troops and Islamist militants



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.

You might also like