What the records say
- When
- 2007
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 9.82° N, 80.23° E
- Description
- 2007 naval battle
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
- Naval
- yes
Placed at the town its title names, Point Pedro.
Battle of Point Pedro (2007)
2007 battle of the Eelam War IV
The Battle of Point Pedro was fought on June 19, 2007 off Point Pedro during Eelam War IV, the final state of the Sri Lankan civil war. Several Sri Lankan Navy patrol boats were attacked by 24 patrol boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) Sea Tigers, but with the help of Mil Mi-24 gunships of the Sri Lanka Air Force the attackers were driven off with the purported loss of 9 patrol boats and 40 LTTE me…
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Sri Lankan military claims to have killed 30 members of the Tamil Tigers in overnight clashes in the east of the country”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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