Information About Incident 60014-119910-303681 in Polonnaruwa Sri Lanka

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A group of armed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militants attacked a group of farmers at Mankdeniya in the Welikanda area of Polonnaruwa District in the night of March 25 and shot dead at least four farmers and injured four others, according to Colombo Page.

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• Meta Location: Mankdeniya Welikanda Polonnaruwa Colombo, Mankdeniya Welikanda Polonnaruwa Colombo, Mankdeniya Welikanda Polonnaruwa Colombo
• Matched District: Polonnaruwa
• Actgroup: attack, kill, injure
• Actor: A group of armed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) militants, A group of armed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) militants, A group of armed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) militants
• Subject: a group of farmers, at least four farmers, four others

Context

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A group of armed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militants attacked a group of farmers at Mankdeniya in the Welikanda area of Polonnaruwa District in the night of March 25 and shot dead at least four farmers and injured four others, according to Colombo Page. Defence officials said the farmers were collecting their harvest from the paddy filed in a tractor, when the militants attacked them. As reported earlier, suspected LTTE militants had killed five farmers and injured two others in a similar attack at Dehiwatte village in the Serunuwara area of bordering Trincomalee District on March 24.

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