Jaffna remains tense: "LTTE media are carrying out psycho warfare" - SL Army

Colombo, 12 August, (Asiantribune.com): Situation in Jaffna remains tense as conflicting reports emerges. A pro-Tamil Tiger news portal reported of an aerial attack on Sri Lankan military base at Palaly located in Jaffna, on Friday around 9.30 p.m. But Sri Lanka Army denied the report completely. No such incidents took place, the Army spokesperson told.
Army spokesperson while denying the canard about aerial attack added that "There were only mortar fire yesterday but no heavy calibre artillery attacks."

Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports were posted in the LTTE news portal quoting "military sources" of two Sri Lanka Air Force helicopters, a Mi-24 gunship and a Bell 212 transport, were damaged by LTTE shells which hit the Palaly base on Friday night.

Furthermore, LTTE on Friday ‘vowed to repel a Sri Lanka Army offensive on the Elephant Pass area’ and warned people living close to SLA positions in Thenmaradchchi and some of the islands off Jaffna, including Allaipiddy, to move away from Sri Lanka military positions for their own safety.

Also pro-LTTE news portal reported of the imposition of curfew in Jaffna on Friday night, but a senior police officer in Jaffna denied that no curfew order was imposed by the police in Jaffna.
Army sources stated that LTTE media are carrying out as usual a psycho–warfare to gain undue propaganda mileage of their activities in the Northen front.