Tiger planes bomb Sri Lanka airbase
Three killed as Tamil Tigers launch first air strike of long-running civil war.
“Other Sri Lanka military installations will also be targets of our future attacks” Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan, |
The attack comes as fighting in the island’s two-decade civil war continues to escalate. The conflict between Sri Lanka’s government and the island nation’s Tamil minority has killed around 68,000 people since 1983.
Flights suspended
Meanwhile Reuters reports that Cathay Pacific Airways has suspended flights to and from the Sri Lankan capital after the attack.
Asia‘s third-largest carrier said in a statement that it would resume its daily flights of Boeing 777-300 aircraft only after conducting a careful assessment of the situation.
“We will just have to monitor the situation very closely,” a company spokeswoman said.