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Murunkan massacre of Inspector Bastianpillai and his police team
Location
Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka
Date
7 April 1978
Target
Sri Lanka Police officers
Attack type
Armed massacre
Weapons
Guns
Deaths
4
Perpetrators
LTTE
The Murunkan massacre of Inspector Bastianpillai and his team of police officers was the mass murder of a team of CID officers of the Sri Lanka Police on 7 April 1978 in the jungles of Murunkan in the Vavuniya District. Four police officers including Inspector Bastianpillai were killed by LTTE members led by Uma Maheswaran.[1][2]
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