Nedunkerni is located in the northern part of the Vavuniya district. Nedunkerni hospital provides the main medical services to the people for this region. This hospital is not well equipped and therefore any complicated cases are frequently transferred to the larger hospital in the Mullaithivu district. On 8 August 2006, around 7.00pm, an ambulance delivered a pregnant mother at the Puthukkudiyiruppu hospital in the Mullaithivu district and was on its way back to Nedunkerni hospital around 10.00pm. This ambulance came under the claymore attack of the Sri Lankan military Deep Penetration Unit. Five people, a doctor, his wife, two nurses, and the ambulance driver, in the ambulance were killed in the attack.The killed doctor, Dr Jeyabalina, was the only doctor at the Nedunkerni hospital.
Names of victims (name, age)
1. Jehananthan Nahuleswari, 37
2. Jeyamalina Ponnamma
3. Kasupathy Gopalasundaram, 54
4. Kathirkamathamby Jeyamalina, 68
5. Rasalingam Gnaneswari, 22