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The display of a wreckage of a passenger airplane that was shot down by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) 16 years ago this weekend at the public park grounds in Jaffna District drew a large crowd, reports Colombo Page on January 12.
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The display of a wreckage of a passenger airplane that was shot down by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) 16 years ago this weekend at the public park grounds in Jaffna District drew a large crowd, reports Colombo Page on January 12. The debris of the ill-fated aircraft along with some recovered personal items of the passengers including a National Identity Card of a passenger, clothes, and shoes, were on display to the public on January 11 and 12. The ill-fated Lion Air flight 602 from Palaly to Ratmalana carrying 48 civilians and 8 crew including two Ukrainian pilots went missing on September 29, 1998 over the Iranativu Island into the sea off the north-western coast. The wreckage was recovered last year by the Sri Lanka Navy divers on the information provided to the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) of Police by a LTTE cadre who fired the missile to shoot down the plane.
| Event ID | Date | Country | Storyhead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 67380-137764-349652 | 1/13/2014 | Sri Lanka | Wreckage of airplane shot down by LTTE displayed in Jaffna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67380-137764-349652 | 1/13/2014 | Sri Lanka | attack | Jaffna |