Information About Incident 34531-64524-152456 in Matara Sri Lanka

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In addition, Police also arrested six LTTE suspects in Rathwatta several days ago along with 13-kg of high explosives, 30 detonators, 11 feet long detonator codes and cyanide capsules.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Rathwatta
• Matched District: Matara
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Police
• Subject: six LTTE suspects

Context

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

Daily News reports that Police on August 16 arrested four key LTTE suspects wanted in connection with 13 bomb blasts in the hill country area, including Kandy and Matale. They were arrested from Matale, Rathwatta and Elkaduwa. In addition, Police also arrested six LTTE suspects in Rathwatta several days ago along with 13-kg of high explosives, 30 detonators, 11 feet long detonator codes and cyanide capsules. Investigations revealed that these suspects are linked to 13 blasts in Kandy and suburbs, including the explosions of buses in Dambulla, Digampatha and Polgolla. These suspects had also attempted to assassinate Government Defence spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella.

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

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