29.11.2008

After days of fierce gunbattles and stiff LTTE resistance troops of the 59 Division have entered Otiyamalai general area, at the Mullaittivu battlefront today (Nov 29) afternoon.

According to initial reports from the battlefront, troops of the 14th Sinha Regiment(SR) and the 12th Sri Lanka Light Infantry(SLLI) have broken the LTTE defences and entered the area, forcing terrorist to flee with heavy casualties. Army forward domination elements are now on pursuit of the fleeing terrorists while other infantrymen are engaged in mop-up and clearing operations in the liberated area, military sources reported.

Otiyamali located southwest of Tannimurippukulam is a key LTTE fortification, military sources said. The LTTE garrisons at Nedukerni, Nainamadu and Oddusudan will also be unstable with this loss of Otiyamali to security forces and will also disintegrate it's hopes of resistance at Mullaittivu.