Murukandy claymore attack 23 May 2008
Murukandy claymore attack 23 May 2008
On 23 May 2008, a private van carrying nineteen members of an extended family including several children was travelling on the Murukandy-Akkarayan road in Kilinochchi when the van came under a claymore attack of the Sri Lanka military Deep Penetration Unit, near Murukandy.
Sixteen civilians including five children were killed and the other three passengers were injured. The extended family in the van was returning from Mulankavil where they had visited a relative who was a patient at the Mulankavil hospital. All the five children killed in this attack are not only from one extended family but they also attended the same school in Parathipuram.
Names of victims (name, age)
- Alagan Subramanium, 40
- Chandramohan Karthika, 10
- Chandrsekaram Keerthika, 11
- Kanes Thanaraj, 34
- Karuppaih Unga
- Pannerselvam Alahuranee, 45
- Periyasamy Vijayaratnam
- Rasenthiram Kalavalli, 29
- Samikannu Karuppaih
- Selvarasa Vimalathevi, 34
- Subramanium Sarasvathi, 46
- Subramanium Thanaladchmi, 54
- Vijayaratnam Loganantha
- Vijayaratnam Priyathanushan, 7
- Vijayaratnam Sivalaksala, 16
- Vijayaratnam Vithushan, 9
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