| Nagarkovil school bombing | |
|---|---|
| Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War | |
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| Location | Nagar Kovil, Sri Lanka |
| Coordinates | 9°42′02″N 80°18′31″E / 9.70056°N 80.30861°E |
| Date | September 22, 1995 (+6 GMT) |
| Target | Sri Lankan Tamils |
Attack type | Aerial bombardment |
| Weapons | Bomb |
| Deaths | 71 [1][2] |
| Injured | 150 [3] |
| Perpetrators | Sri Lankan Airforce[4] |
The Nagarkovil school bombing was an airstrike on 22 September 1995 in which the Sri Lankan Air Force bombed the Nagarkovil Maha Vidyalayam school in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, resulting in the death of, by varying accounts, 34-71 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians, primarily schoolchildren, and injuries to many more.[5][6][7][8][3] Sri Lankan Defense spokesman admitted the incident but claimed that it was a LTTE facility and several of the dead were LTTE cadres. The airstrike took place 12 hours after the Sri Lankan government had imposed a press censorship on war-related events.[9][10]
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- ^ Clara Tran (12 Oct 2015). "Six years after the end of Sri Lanka's civil war, Tamils in Jaffna still struggling to rebuild their lives". ABC. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
- ^ "SRI LANKA:CIVILIAN WELL-BEING IN A TIME OF WAR: A LOST HOPE?". UTHR. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
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