The on-going battle between the Tamil Sea Tigers and the Sri Lankan navy continues, with allegations of Sea Tiger's using sea mines and the Sea Tigers asserting "suicide boats". Reported here:
Sri Lanka's navy has fought a battle with a flotilla of Tamil Tiger boats off the island's north-east coast.The use of sea mines by the Sea Tigers would be of interest to ships transiting the area, as Galrahn notes here, but for a variety of reasons, I tend to believe the Sea Tigers this time.
It comes days after officials said a navy fast-attack craft was sunk by a sea mine. The rebels claimed it was sunk by a suicide attack.
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The latest sea confrontation took place in the middle of the night.
A navy patrol spotted a small flotilla of Tamil Tiger boats hugging the coast and opened fire.
Navy spokesman Lt Cdr Rohan Joseph said one rebel vessel was disabled in the fighting but he had no details on whether anyone on board was wounded or killed.
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