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Three days of digging of the coast near Pooneryn in Northern Province has not been successful in locating any remains of 31 passengers of a Lion Air Flight 602 aircraft shot down by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group on September 29, 1998, reports Colombo Page on December 12.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
Pooneryn Northern ProvincePolonnaruwa
attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) terrorist group a Lion Air Flight 602 aircraftThis data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
Three days of digging of the coast near Pooneryn in Northern Province has not been successful in locating any remains of 31 passengers of a Lion Air Flight 602 aircraft shot down by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group on September 29, 1998, reports Colombo Page on December 12. The ill-fated Lion Air Flight 602 that took off from Palaly airport in Jaffna with 48 passengers and 8 crew members including two Ukrainian pilots went missing on September 29, 1998 over the Iranathivu Island. An LTTE cadre in the custody of authorities had revealed that the bodies of 31 victims were buried in the coastal area of Kaddarimunai at Iranathivu in Pooneryn.
| Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 59379-118515-299860 | 12/13/2012 | Sri Lanka | No remaining of Lion Air Flight 602 found near Pooneryn in Northern Province |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 59379-118515-299860 | 12/13/2012 | Sri Lanka | attack | Polonnaruwa |