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Kfir bombing destroy Padahuthurai village in Mannar 14 killed

3rd Update:

Fourteen people are dead including six children and more than thirty are injured including scores of children in a Sri Lankan air raid on a Tamil fishing village in Mannar.

On 2 January 2007 exactly at 9.35 am four Sri Lankan air force Kfirs bombed the fishing village of Padahuthurai near Iluppaikkdavai in Mannar district.

Fourteen civilians are reported killed including six children and at least another 30 seriously injured including scores of children. Out of the 30 houses in the village of Padahuthurai, 25 houses are completely burnt down. Only 5 houses are standing up but badly damaged.

26 of the seriously injured were taken to Mulankavil hospital. Many of the badly injured including several children have been tranferred to Kilinochchi hospital. Doctor Sathananthan of Kilinochchi hospital said most of the victims brought to the hospital are children. He added that the hospital is short of bandages and antibiotics due to ministry of defence clearance delays.

ICRC Mannar and ICRC Kilinochchi have visited the spot. Acting Head of UNICEF Kilinochchi, Kit Dyer visited Kilinochchi hospital to see the injured children.

Padahuthurai village is Christian fishing village. The families were on holiday and were relaxing after their new year celebrations when the Sri Lankan Kfirs attacked the village.

Pictures of injured children arriving at Kilinochchi hospital 50 Kms from the bombed village

02 January 2007

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Last update:
January 23, 2009 13.01 GMT

	Civilians
	Killed - 2341
	Displaced - 340,000
	Disappeared -1123
	Blacked out
	Evicted - 300,000

Family of six blown to pieces, surviving members unable to hold funeral

At 6.45am SLA fired artillery blew up a family of six, father, mother and four children, to pieces in Red-Barna in Visuvamadu. The four children killed in the family are aged from one to sixteen. Three more IDPs, two of them children aged 10 and 14, were also killed by this shelling incident.

Widespread shelling in Vanni including Theravil and Kaiveli kills entire families

SLA shelling on 16 January at 1.30pm on the IDP settlement in Theravil in Mullaithivu District killed a family of three leaving the one and half year old baby who was also injured with no one to care for him. The baby is receiving treatment at the Puthukudiyiruppu hospital.

Children from Tharmapuram packed under trees in Theravil

A striking feature of the IDP population that has just moved from Tharmapuram to Theravil are the large number of children among them. Babies in mothers’ arms, dawdling toddlers, young children eating raw mangoes, boys playing marbles or digging bunkers, girls playing hopscotch or caring for younger siblings, they are the ones filling the place.

For the third day in a row, very large scale civilian victims in SLA shelling

SLA artillery kills two civilians and injures seven in Suthanthirapuram

Widespread shelling in Kaively in Mullaithivu injures thirteen civilians

Tharmapuram exodus