Pasukan keamanan kehilangan lima tentara dan 23 cedera di distrik Vavuniya, sedangkan tentara lainnya tewas di utara semenanjung Jaffna, kata para pejabat militer.
Security forces lost five soldiers and 23 were wounded in the district of Vavuniya, while another soldier was killed further north in the Jaffna peninsula, military officials said.