Terrorist Incidents in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka

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Event ID Date State Event
68761-140788-357257 4/13/2014 Vavuniya Meanwhile, Army spokesman Ruwan Wanigasooriya said that Ponniah Selvanayagam alias Gopi, a former LTTE intelligence cadre, was among the three LTTE leaders who were killed by the Army during a clash at Nadunkarni area of Vavuniya District on April 10, reports Daily Mirror on April 11.
41446-79438-196779 12/16/2009 Vavuniya Separately, the Criminal Investigating Division (CID) on December 13 arrested the Finance Division head of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO), a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) front organization, in Jaffna, according to The Island.
41407-79346-196471 12/14/2009 Vavuniya The accusations that we had abducted minors from Vavuniya camps are baseless.“
40992-78490-193468 11/18/2009 Vavuniya Meanwhile, the two LTTE cadres who were arrested by Police in Vavuniya were found to have links with the abduction of a youth and demanding SLR .500000
40992-78490-193473 11/18/2009 Vavuniya As reported earlier, Police arrested two LTTE suspects in Vavuniya on November 11.
40974-78456-193320 11/17/2009 Vavuniya Meanwhile, acting on information provided by a special Police team, the Criminal Investigating Department (CID) arrested a key Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspect involved in the Central Bank bomb blast in 1996 from the Udarikulam Road of Chettikulam in the Vavuniya District, reports Daily News.

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District Number of Events
Vavuniya 699

The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.