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Police suspect that the same group of militants who massacred nine civilians in Mahagodayaya is involved in this attack.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
MahagodayayaMatara
kill the same group militants who nine civilians in MahagodayayaThis data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
Suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militants attacked the residents of Galvetiyamandiya village in Moneragala District in the evening of April 13 and shot dead at least three civilians, the military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said on April 14, reports Colombo Page. The victims included two elderly women and one male, adds a Sri Lanka Army report. Police also found one more woman with severe cut injuries. Police suspect that the same group of militants who massacred nine civilians in Mahagodayaya is involved in this attack. As reported earlier, in a similar attack the militants had killed nine people in the Mahagodayaya village along the Buttala-Moneragala road in the evening of April 12.
| Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 37846-72041-172488 | 4/15/2009 | Sri Lanka | Suspected LTTE militants kill three civilians in Moneragala District |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37846-72041-172485 | 4/15/2009 | Sri Lanka | attack | Moneragala |
| 37846-72041-172488 | 4/15/2009 | Sri Lanka | kill | Matara |
| 37846-72041-172489 | 4/15/2009 | Sri Lanka | kill | Moneragala |