Police protection for hospitalized LTTE women

(LankaNewspapers) The government had deployed police to prevent Karuna loyalists from infiltrating a leading private hospital in Colombo, where three female LTTE cadres, including Kuveni, their Ampara-Batticaloa women's political wing chief, wounded in an ambush off Akkaraipattu, had been warded.

"We aren't taking chances," a security official said, adding they were the first Vanni faction cadres airlifted to Colombo after being wounded in an ambush in the east.