| Battle of Pulukunawa | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Sri Lankan civil war | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Sri Lanka Police | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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Special Task Force, Sri Lanka Artillery | Black Tigers | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| ~140 | ~500 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 26 killed | ||||||
The Battle of Pulukunawa took place during the Sri Lankan Civil War. It occurred on 11 December 1996 in which the LTTE militants attacked and overran the Special Task Force detachment at Pulukunawa in Ampara.
- ^ Humanitarian Operation Factual Analysis July 2006 – May 2009 (PDF). Ministry Of Defence Democratic Socialist Republic Of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 9 September 2021.