Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Here are some of the pictures of the recent flooding in Jaffna..!

- Friday Morning 26/09/08 - Castle Hill/Sydney

- 9 Day Old 250t Liebherr Crane (never used before)

- $4mill price tag

- Failure of back propping beneath the 200mm thick concrete deck.

- Crane support outrigger punches through slab causing crane to lose balance and collapses.

- Crane balanced in the air for approx 1 hour before entire rig & boom collapse completely across site and rigs falls through to the basement level.

- Amazingly no one was seriously injured or killed.

SLAF airstrike kills 2 Tamil civilians, 11 wounded
[TamilNet, Sunday, 15 June 2008, 06:45 GMT]
Two civilians were killed on the spot Sunday morning when Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) bombed a civilian settlement of Internally Displaced Persons in Puthukkudiyiruppu in Mullaiththteevu district. 11 civilians, including a pregnant mother, were wounded in the air attack, Tamileelam Police said. Puthukkudiyiruppu Central College, located 100 meters away from the IDP settlement, zonal office of education, and temples in the vicinity have sustained damage in the SLAF attack. Tension prevails in the town as shrapnels from the air-blasts of the bombs were spread around the area.

Now that they have captured the bear out in Pickering, let`s hope that they don`t release him into the woods like how these guys did..! :):):)

Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) Leader Velupillai Pirapaharan on Thursday paid his last respects to Brigadier Balraj, a senior and a special commander of the LTTE, who passed away on Tuesday of a sudden heart attack in Vanni.