The Sri Lankan, Navy, Army and the Air Force staged a combined attack on the Tamil civilian settlements in the village of Muthur East in Trincomalee district for more than four hours on 25 April 2006. Crushed bodies of twelve civilians were found at the end of the attack. Among the victims were three children aged 4, 15 and 16.
3000 families from Muthur east displaced after this attack and among those who displaced are 25 civilians injured by the combined attack by all three forces. This was the first aerial bombing carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force since the signing of the ceasefire agreement in 2002. SLMM and UNICEF
Available names of victims (name, age)
1. Gnanasekaram Renukaran, 23
2. K Selvarani, 32
3. K. Meiyan, 34
4. Meiyan Kishanthan, 04
5. Nagiah Rukmani, 49
6. Navarathnam Ranjithamalar, 56
7. Pathiniyan Nagamma, 67
8. Tharmalingam Sureshrooban, 23
9. Thuraiappa Ratheesh, 15
10. Varathan Rajkumar, 16
11. Veerapathiran Pagawathipillai, 67
12. Vilirasa Mayooran, 21
