According to latest reports received the death toll at the LTTE village massacre at Kirimetiya has risen to 15 civilians, while 20 others including children had sustained serious injuries on Saturday (Feb 21).A group of LTTE terrorists stormed into the Kirimetiya village at Rathmalgaha Ella in Iginiyagala yesterday, opening indiscriminate small arms fire at civilians who were mainly Chena cultivators, Iginiyagala Police said. The Kirimetiya village is a predominantly Sinhalese village, located along the Bibila - Ampara main road. The injured civilians were evacuated to the general hospital at Ampara while Army, Police Special Task Force(STF) personnel are continuing with cordon and search operations to clamp on the perpetrators.LTTE terrorists committed the brutal village massacre within 24 hours after losing two of its stunt aircraft due to precision air defence fire at Colombo and Katunayake on Friday(20).LTTE is a ruthless terrorist outfit that has been fighting for a mono ethnic separate homeland for Tamils since 1983. The outfit led by its psychopathic leader V. Prbhakaran is notorious for crimes against women and children. During its three decades of terror campaign against Sri Lankan citizens the outfit has killed and maimed over tens and thousands innocent children in ethnic cleansing raids, indiscriminate bomb attacks and by using child soldiers at the battlefronts. More information will follow.