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Baba Siddique was shot on 12 October 2024 by three assailants in Mumbai. He was then rushed to Lilavati Hospital where he was declared dead. He was 66 years old. Sources said three bullets were fired at Siddique around 9:30 pm near the office of his son, Zeeshan, who is the MLA of Bandra East.
The Sri Lankan Civil War was in a conflict on the island-nation of Sri Lanka.Between 1983 and 2009 there was an intermittent civil war, predominantly between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist militant organisation who during this time fought for the creation of an independent state named Tamil Eelam in the North and East of the island.
The following is a list of notable killings, including terrorists attributed to armed groups under the control of the Sri Lankan government – Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and paramilitary groups (Home Guards/Civil Defence Force, Eelam People's Democratic Party, Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal etc.).
The following is a list of notable people assassinated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, commonly known as Tamil Tigers or as LTTE. [1] [2] The LTTE was a militant organisation that was based in northern Sri Lanka, which fought for a separate Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka between 1983 and 2009. [3]
Army commander Lt. Gen. Daluwatte decided to launch a rescue operation immediately. Air force airlifted the Anti hijacking & hostage release group of Sri Lanka Army Commandos under Capt. Chinthaka Dissanayake who are positioned in the Bandaranaike International Airport. While they are arriving, Colombo based 112 Brigade who already outside Lake ...
Location of Sri Lanka. The Massacre at Thandikulam is a disputed event which occurred during Sri Lankan Civil War.It took place on 19 November 2006 when suspected LTTE carders exploded an Improvised explosive device (an IED) targeting a military truck killing five Sri Lanka Army soldiers.
Fighting continued, with one commando being killed by friendly fire, three airmen being killed and one attacker committing suicide. One of the attackers on the roof fired an RPG into a Sri Lankan Airlines Airbus A340 which had landed from Singapore before the attack, busting into flames. Shortly thereafter the two attackers on the roof were killed.
Photo gallery of Black Tigers killed. The first Black Tiger was Vallipuram Vasanthan, who drove a small truck laden with explosives into a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp in Nelliady, Jaffna peninsula, on 5 July 1987 during the Battle of Nelliady, killing himself and between 39 and 100 Sri Lankan soldiers.