Sri Lanka: September 16, 2001

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For the 66th time since 1987, rebels launched a suicide attack. This time it was against a ship carrying 1200 troops along the northeast coast. The attack was defeated, but a navy patrol boat was sunk with 11 sailors killed and ten missing. Six suicide bombers and six rebels also died. 

 

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