[Video Inside]Valaignarmadam and Pokkanai area came under heavy shell attack today from morning onwards. Tamil National Reporter said he has seen dark smoke coming from Valaignarmadam area in the morning around 8 am. Heavy casualty was reported from Valaignarmadam area and people from Valaignarmadam are continuously shifting into Mullivaikkal area, he said. .
In the attacks on Valaignarmadam and Pokkanai 121 civilians were killed and another 135 were injured. Eelanatham Tamil daily employee also was killed in the attack.
According to hospital sources, many people from Valaignarmadam area were admitted to hospital today with injuries due to shell attack.
Mullivakkal North area came under air attack today at 10.15 am and Mullivaikkal South was attacked thrice at 2.15 pm, 4.30 pm, and 5.15 pm. 184 civilians were killed in the air attacks.
Both MIC and Kfir were engaged in the attack; in the operation at 2.15 they dropped 16 bombs on the civilian settlement. This operation lasted for around 20 minutes, taking the lives of 126 on the spot and damaging many civilian tents and few houses that existed in that area. In the subsequent air raids 48 were killed and 78 were injured. Also many tents and other properties were damaged. More than 100 feared killed in today's attacks and more than 200 injured in the air attack. People were vulnerable to attack since many people who are moving from Valaignamadam are on look out for places to settle.
Meantime Sri Lankan Navy was targeting its cannons towards the shores and in their early morning attack 16 people belonging to two families were killed and many fishing equipments were damaged.
Food is a major issue there, the Government officials in Colombo have blocked the food shipment scheduled to arrive on last Tuesday. People say that the government officials have done it purposefully to put them in to starvation and threaten for their surrender to SLA.
severe shortage of food is affecting all the people and many children and elder's life are under great risk due to acute starvation.
Many families do not have rice at home and they depend on the gruel served by TRO. Some families are cooking only dhal and eating.
All are waiting for the food ship's arrival.
People are expecting some relieve to come with the UN intervention and waiting for the arrival of UN mission in to their area said our reporter.
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