The Sri Lankan Navy says it has fired at a suspicious aircraft that was apparently leaving one of the last strongholds of Tamil Tiger rebels.
Military officials said they detected an unidentified aircraft leaving Chalai, where the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam maintain sea bases and a suspected airstrip, and fired at it, the Indo Asian News Service reported Wednesday.
"(Our) Israeli-built Dvora fast attack (ships) … opened fire at the aircraft using long range guns but it disappeared from the sky," a Sri Lankan military official told the news agency.
Because the craft was flying at a high altitude, observers were speculating the LTTE could be getting aid from foreign donors. After a rapid succession of military victories, government troops have boxed the rebels into a small section of forests near Mullaitivu, IANS reported.
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