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Sri Lanka aerial bombing kills eight, including three children, in the north

3rd Lead

Eight civilians, including three children, were killed and fourteen more were injured, four of them critically, when Sri Lanka bombed a coastal civilian settlement in the Kiranchi area in Poonahari in the Kilinochchi district at 9.00am today, 22 February.

An infant and a child aged four from the same family are among those killed as the bomb fell on their home. Another child aged four was also killed.

Five of those killed died instantly following the bombing and three more of the critically injured died later.

Among the injured civilians taken to the hospital are four children, all aged under eight.

Names of those killed and injured are listed at the end.

Killed:

1. Thamizhveanthan, 06 month-old infant
2. Kajeevan, Male aged 04
3. Vijayakumar Sivananthini, Female aged 27, teacher
4. Vijaykumar Vithusha, Female aged 04
5. Sasikaran Kavithainayaki, Female aged 34
6. Suthakaran Sumathy, Female aged 30,
7. Kathiravelu Thiruneelakandar, Male aged 79
8. Inthiran Lalitha, Female 29

Injured

1. Vijayakumar Dinoshan, Male aged 02,
2. Banushan Suthaharan, Male aged 06,
3. Sasikumar Tharshan, Male aged 07
4. Kaarunyan Sasitharan, Male aged 08
5. Arulanantham, Male aged 72
6. Tharmalingam Poomani, Female aged, 68
7. Sabeena Suthaharan, Female aged 05
8. Kamalathevi Sathasivam, Female aged 60
9. Vijayakumar Sivananthi, Female aged 36
10. Arulanantham Leelavathi , Female aged 68
11. Saththiyanathan Theyvanayakai, Female aged 43
12. Sasitharan Karunyan, Male
13. Sreevathy Rajeaswari, Female aged 39
14. Rageswary, Female, aged 33

22 February 2008

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