The LTTE continue to infiltrate Army-held Mannar Island. The Tigers fired on a passenger bus travelling from Talaimannar to Mannar town, at Nadukkudah on 24 September. A naval officer and a policeman were killed. Two policemen and student P Arulseelan, 17, were injured. The following day, a bomb wounded a policeman and two civilians at a checkpoint in Mannar town.
Further east in Vavuniya, police say they stopped an armed gang heading to attack Poonthottam refugee camp on 20 September. Gangs also attempted to attack Tamil villages in the District following the massacre of Sinhalese civilians in Amparai. The Army searched Vavuniya town on 21 September, after reports that Tigers had infiltrated the town and paraded people before Talayattis or masked informers.
After PLOTE leader D Sitharthan alleged of a plot to kill him, the police hunted for the group’s new military commanders Jegan and Jeeva. In mid-September, the Army arrested Haribabu, another member of the faction of Manikkadasan who was killed in August.