Information About Incident 59563-118953-300885 in Vavuniya Sri Lanka

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In another incident, two LTTE militants lobbed hand grenades towards police personnel on duty in the Sivampuram area of Vavuniya district.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Sivampuram Vavuniya
• Matched District: Vavuniya
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: two LTTE militants
• Subject: hand grenades

Context

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In another incident, two LTTE militants lobbed hand grenades towards police personnel on duty in the Sivampuram area of Vavuniya district. Police personnel retaliated and killed one of the militants while the other managed to escape. One pistol and a hand grenade were recovered from the incident site.

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