Information About Incident 63583-128186-325055 in Kandy Sri Lanka

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LTTE brutally hacked to death and shot 33 Buddhist monks, most of them novice monks as young as 8 years old when they were in a bus heading to Kandy city of Central Province.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Kandy Central Province
• Matched District: Kandy
• Actgroup: attack
• Actor: LTTE
• Subject: 33 Buddhist monks , most of them novice monks as young as 8 years old

Context

This data was extracted from the following paragraph of the newspaper clippings.

Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Colombo on June 2 commemorated the massacre of 33 Buddhist monks in Aranthalawa area of Ampara District of Eastern Province by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) on June 2, 1987, reports Colombo Page. LTTE brutally hacked to death and shot 33 Buddhist monks, most of them novice monks as young as 8 years old when they were in a bus heading to Kandy city of Central Province.

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