Battle of Point Pedro

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The Battle of Point Pedro was fought on June 19, 2007 off Point Pedro during Eelam War IV, the final state of the Sri Lankan civil war. Several Sri Lankan Navy patrol boats were attacked by 24 patrol boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) Sea Tigers, but with the help of Mil Mi-24 gunships of the Sri Lanka Air Force the attackers were driven off with the purported loss of 9 patrol boats and 40 LTTE members.

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