Shells fall near journalists travelling with Sri Lankan Army in Jaffna
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(21 Sep 2006) SHOTLIST Near
(21 Sep 2006) SHOTLIST
Near Mirusuvil, Northern Jaffna Peninsula
1. Armoured vehicle on side of road
2. Various of vehicle moving along road
3. Soldiers on top of vehicle
4. Armoured vehicle turning in road
5. View out of top of armoured vehicle
6. Various of troops inside of vehicle
7. Various of journalists travelling to LTTE front line inside armoured vehicle
Mirusuvil Village
8. Location where artillery shells fell near group of journalists
Sri Lankan military facility in Jaffna
9. Sri Lankan soldiers getting into armoured personnel carrier
10. Soldier getting out of armoured personnel carrier
11. Armoured personnel carrier
12. Soldiers marching along
13. Various of large guns being fired
14. Various of large artillery being fired
STORYLINE:
Two artillery shells in Sri Lanka fell in the vicinity of a group of journalists on a visit with military forces in Jaffna on Tuesday, but no one there was injured.
The attack, which was targeting troops, happened near a military camp in the village of Mirusuvil, said an official at the Media Centre for National Security (the official news organ of the Sri Lankan ministry of defence).
As reporters stepped out from armoured vehicles, rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) started shelling.
The Sri Lanka Army then returned fire.
"Tamil Tigers not wanting the world to know how they have been defeated ... fired artillery at a media team travelling in northern Jaffna," said the Media Centre for National Security later on its Web site.
There was no immediate comment from the rebels.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been fighting for a separate homeland for the country's 3.2 million ethnic Tamil minority since 1983, citing decades of discrimination by the Sinhalese majority.
Jaffna is located 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of the capital, Colombo and has been a key centre of fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE) during the country's near two-decade civil war.
Recently the area has seen some of the fiercest fighting since the two sides signed a Norway-brokered cease-fire in 2002.
The narrow but fiercely contested strip of land at Sri Lanka's uppermost tip, remains virtually cut off from the rest of the country after the main highway linking it to the capital, Colombo, was closed because of heavy fighting.
The government earlier this month said it captured the first line of bunkers south of the peninsula, encroaching on the territory claimed by the rebels.
Jaffna's population of more than 500,000 remains virtually trapped in a war zone with no easy way in or out.
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Near Mirusuvil, Northern Jaffna Peninsula
1. Armoured vehicle on side of road
2. Various of vehicle moving along road
3. Soldiers on top of vehicle
4. Armoured vehicle turning in road
5. View out of top of armoured vehicle
6. Various of troops inside of vehicle
7. Various of journalists travelling to LTTE front line inside armoured vehicle
Mirusuvil Village
8. Location where artillery shells fell near group of journalists
Sri Lankan military facility in Jaffna
9. Sri Lankan soldiers getting into armoured personnel carrier
10. Soldier getting out of armoured personnel carrier
11. Armoured personnel carrier
12. Soldiers marching along
13. Various of large guns being fired
14. Various of large artillery being fired
STORYLINE:
Two artillery shells in Sri Lanka fell in the vicinity of a group of journalists on a visit with military forces in Jaffna on Tuesday, but no one there was injured.
The attack, which was targeting troops, happened near a military camp in the village of Mirusuvil, said an official at the Media Centre for National Security (the official news organ of the Sri Lankan ministry of defence).
As reporters stepped out from armoured vehicles, rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) started shelling.
The Sri Lanka Army then returned fire.
"Tamil Tigers not wanting the world to know how they have been defeated ... fired artillery at a media team travelling in northern Jaffna," said the Media Centre for National Security later on its Web site.
There was no immediate comment from the rebels.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been fighting for a separate homeland for the country's 3.2 million ethnic Tamil minority since 1983, citing decades of discrimination by the Sinhalese majority.
Jaffna is located 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of the capital, Colombo and has been a key centre of fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels (LTTE) during the country's near two-decade civil war.
Recently the area has seen some of the fiercest fighting since the two sides signed a Norway-brokered cease-fire in 2002.
The narrow but fiercely contested strip of land at Sri Lanka's uppermost tip, remains virtually cut off from the rest of the country after the main highway linking it to the capital, Colombo, was closed because of heavy fighting.
The government earlier this month said it captured the first line of bunkers south of the peninsula, encroaching on the territory claimed by the rebels.
Jaffna's population of more than 500,000 remains virtually trapped in a war zone with no easy way in or out.
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