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Article: SRI LANKAN REBELS FIRE MISSILES AT JETS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 21, 1997
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Tamil separatists fired ground-to-air missiles at two air force jets in fierce fighting that killed more than 150 combatants, a military spokesman said.
Two Sri Lankan pilots flying Israeli-made Kfir jets destroyed the missiles and landed safely during the fighting Tuesday, the military said.
Although the rebels were known to have such weapons, believed to be U.S.-made Stingers, they have used them sparingly, military spokesman Maj. Kumara Dewage said.
At least 20 soldiers and 130 rebels were killed in Tuesday's fighting near Puliyankulam, a heavily fortified rebel town about 135 miles north of the capital Colombo, Dewage said.
But ...