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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.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
Palamoddai
Gampaha
kill
the troops
one militant
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.
Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
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34500-64420-152193 | 8/16/2008 | Sri Lanka | 35 LTTE militants and two soldiers killed in separate incidents |
The original source
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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34500-64420-152191 | 8/16/2008 | Sri Lanka | kill | Gampaha |
34500-64420-152193 | 8/16/2008 | Sri Lanka | kill | Gampaha |
34500-64421-152194 | 8/16/2008 | Sri Lanka | kill | Ratnapura |