What the records say
- When
- 26 Nov 2007
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 4
- Coordinates
- 7.00° N, 81.00° E
- Description
- terrorist incident in Sri Lanka
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Mahawilachchiya massacre
Terrorist incident in Sri Lanka
The Mahawilachchiya massacre is an incident, where a group of four ethnic Sinhalese rice farmers, including a woman found dead with gunshot wounds on November 26, 2007, in Sri Lanka. Incident occurred at the village of Mahawilachchiya in the Anuradhapura District, 222 km from the island's commercial capital Colombo and this was attributed to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam also known as Tamil Tigers which is pro…
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