Three Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in a powerful claymore blast in the Northern Jaffna peninsula on Tuesday evening as the military on search operation unearthed a large cache of heavy weapons, including an anti-aircraft missile left behind by the fleeing Tamil Tiger rebels in the East, defence sources said.
Defence Ministry said the LTTE cadres have detonated the claymore mine “placed in close proximity to a well used by the army troops to obtain water” in Thenmaradchchi region in Jaffna. “The three soldiers who were killed had gone to the well for water,” the ministry said.