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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.
From this sentence, the following information was extracted.
Dehiwatte Serunuwara Trincomalee, Dehiwatte Serunuwara Trincomalee
Polonnaruwa
kill, injure
LTTE militants, LTTE militants
five farmers, two others
This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.
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.
Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
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60014-119910-303683 | 3/26/2009 | Sri Lanka | LTTE kills four farmers in Polonnaruwa District |
60014-119910-303683 | 3/26/2009 | Sri Lanka | LTTE kills four farmers in Polonnaruwa 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 |
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60014-119910-303681 | 3/26/2009 | Sri Lanka | attack | Polonnaruwa |
60014-119910-303683 | 3/26/2009 | Sri Lanka | kill | Polonnaruwa |