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Bombing of SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru | |
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Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War | |
Type | Suicide attack |
Location | Trincomalee, Sri Lanka |
Planned by | LTTE |
Target | SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru |
Date | 19 April 1995 |
Executed by | Sea Tigers |
Casualties | 16 (plus four attackers) killed 21 injured |
The bombing of SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru was an attack carried out on 19 April 1995 by LTTE suicide frogmen of the Sea Tigers, who attacked and sank two Sri Lanka Navy gun boats moored in the harbor of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka by planting explosives on them.
The attack effectively ended the peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, resulting in the start of the Eelam War III, the third phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War.