<p> Two years after the decisive battle in which the Tamil Tigers were vanquished, Sri Lankan security forces made their biggest-ever haul recovering 6,250 kgs of hidden LTTE explosives.</p>.<p>The arms cache was busted in a joint search operation of Army and police in the former LTTE bastions of Mullaithivu and Kilinochchi districts yesterday.<br /><br />The joint operation of the Army and police busted a big hidden arms dump at Iranamadu and Nanthikadal in the Kilinochchi district, where 6,250 kilos of C-4 explosives were found, police said.<br /><br />The sandy Nanthikadal lagoon, was the site where the Tamil Tigers commanded by their supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran made their last stand.<br /><br />Superintendent Ajith Rohana, the police spokesman said, "This is the largest ever quantity of explosives uncovered".<br /><br />He said the explosives were contained in 200 bags and hidden in a bunker used by the LTTE during their days of the military campaign.<br /><br />Rohana said in the adjoining Mullaithivu district another 300 kgs of C-4 were uncovered in the Puthukudyiruppu area along with other weaponry.<br /><br />Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu served as the LTTE’s administrative and military capitals respectively during their three-decades old campaign to carve out a separate Tamil homeland. </p>
<p> Two years after the decisive battle in which the Tamil Tigers were vanquished, Sri Lankan security forces made their biggest-ever haul recovering 6,250 kgs of hidden LTTE explosives.</p>.<p>The arms cache was busted in a joint search operation of Army and police in the former LTTE bastions of Mullaithivu and Kilinochchi districts yesterday.<br /><br />The joint operation of the Army and police busted a big hidden arms dump at Iranamadu and Nanthikadal in the Kilinochchi district, where 6,250 kilos of C-4 explosives were found, police said.<br /><br />The sandy Nanthikadal lagoon, was the site where the Tamil Tigers commanded by their supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran made their last stand.<br /><br />Superintendent Ajith Rohana, the police spokesman said, "This is the largest ever quantity of explosives uncovered".<br /><br />He said the explosives were contained in 200 bags and hidden in a bunker used by the LTTE during their days of the military campaign.<br /><br />Rohana said in the adjoining Mullaithivu district another 300 kgs of C-4 were uncovered in the Puthukudyiruppu area along with other weaponry.<br /><br />Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu served as the LTTE’s administrative and military capitals respectively during their three-decades old campaign to carve out a separate Tamil homeland. </p>
