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Elsewhere, security forces retaliated when LTTE cadres lobbed two hand grenades towards troops who were conducting a search and clear operation at Nayanyurai, injuring nine soldiers.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
Nayanyurai
Matara
attack
LTTE cadres
two hand grenades
This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
Elsewhere, security forces retaliated when LTTE cadres lobbed two hand grenades towards troops who were conducting a search and clear operation at Nayanyurai, injuring nine soldiers. During subsequent search, troops recovered four dead bodies of the outfit cadres, two cyanide capsules, one National Identity Card (732791164V), one Jaffna University Identity Card and two packs with a sum of Rupees 110,000 (US $ 1025) and three mobile SIM cards.;
Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
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27402-48348-110633 | 12/26/2006 | Sri Lanka | Three soldiers and four LTTE cadres killed in separate incidents |
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are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.
Note: incidences are geocoded by the district centroid.
In the same newspaper clipping is further information on the events:
Event ID | Date | Country | Act | District |
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27402-48347-110632 | 12/26/2006 | Sri Lanka | attack | Jaffna |
27402-48348-110633 | 12/26/2006 | Sri Lanka | attack | Matara |