
Midnight aerial attack kills two civilians and injures nineteen more in Kilinochchi
The residents of the Nanthan Kudiyiruppu in Kallaru in Kilinochchi were brutally awoken at 1.30am on 29 November as sixteen bombs rained on the camp of these IDPs who had displaced multiple times. Two civilians were killed including a five year old child and a further nineteen were seriously injured. Among the injured are seven children under the age of fifteen.

Sivakumar Rasakumary and her daughter Sivakymar Sutharsini The residents of this area are IDPs from all parts of Vanni. The settlement was created for the recent IDPs by REERDO a local NGO. Following the heavy rains over the last ten days the IDPs in this settlement displaced yet again to higher grounds and returned to their shelters only on 29 after the floods had receded. The entire settlement of 100 families is now staying by the roadside unwilling to return to the settlement where they faced such losses. 
Ramasamy Palaniamma Many of the victims are from a few families whose shelters were nearer to the bomb explosions. The victims grouped by families are listed below. Family one:
Killed: Sivakumar Sutharsan, male aged 5 year
Injured:
Sivakumar Sutharsiny, female aged 2 years
Sivakumar Rasakumary, female aged 27 years (mother of the two children above)

Nallaih Mathiyalagan and his brother Nallaih Jesintha aged 10 Family two:
Killed: Raman Ramasamy, male aged 80years (husband of the woman below)
Injured: Ramasamy –Palanyammah, female aged 77years (her arm amputated)

Kasipillai Rasenthiram and his son Murugan Rasenthiram Family three injured:
Kasipillai Rasenthiram, male aged 60years (father of the man below)
Murugesu Rasenthiram, male aged 39 years (his left leg amputated)
Rasenthiram Rukmanithevi, female aged 35 (wife of man above)
Rasenthiram Thavaselvi, female aged 16 years (child of the couple above)
Rasenthiram Loginy, female aged 7 years (child of the couple above)
Family four injured:
Nallaiah Puspavally, female aged 28years (mother of the three children below)
Nallaiah Mathiyalagan, male aged 6 years
Nallaiah Jesinthan, male aged 10 years
Nallaiah Sasikumar, male aged 7 years
Family five injured:
Ananthan Kamalathevi, female aged 37years
Ananthan Chithra, female aged 9years (child of the woman above)
Ananthan Velavan, male aged 18years (child of the woman above) Others injured:
Thaynatham Pavithiran, male aged 5years
Periyathamby Sankarapillai, male aged 55years
Kannathasan Amaravathy, female aged 40years
Nagan Sunmugam, male aged 55years
29 November 2008
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