Information About Incident 34500-64420-152191 in Gampaha Sri Lanka

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In the encounter at Palamoddai, the security forces (SFs) captured four bunkers and one 81-mm mortar point killing nine militants while injuring 10 others.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Palamoddai
• Matched District: Gampaha
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: the security forces ( SFs ) one 81-mm mortar point
• Subject: nine militants

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

In the encounter at Palamoddai, the security forces (SFs) captured four bunkers and one 81-mm mortar point killing nine militants while injuring 10 others. The SFs later recovered five hand grenades, 300 T-56 ammunition rounds and several tools used for earth-digging from the area. In a separate incident in the same area, the troops killed one militant and also recovered four hand grenades and two pouches from the Palamoddai area.

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.

Geocode of Incident

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