Nager Kovil school bombing | |
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Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War | |
Location | Nagar Kovil, Sri Lanka |
Coordinates | 9°42′02″N 80°18′31″E / 9.70056°N 80.30861°E |
Date | September 22, 1995 (+6 GMT) |
Target | Sri Lankan Tamils |
Attack type | Aerial bombardment |
Weapons | Bomb |
Deaths | 71 [1][2] |
Injured | 150 [3] |
Perpetrators | Sri Lankan Airforce[4] |
The Nager Kovil school bombing refers to an airstrike that took place on September 22, 1995, when the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed the Nagar Kovil Maha Vidyalayam school in Jaffna, resulting in the death of, by varying accounts, 34-71 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians, primarily schoolchildren and the injury of many more.[5][6][7][8][3] Sri Lankan Defense Spokesman admitted the incident but claimed that it was a LTTE facility and most of the dead were LTTE cadres. Journalists and human rights organizations reported the imposition of censorship and the airstrike took place about 12 hours after the Government imposed press censorship on reporting military events.[9][10]