Bombing of SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru

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Bombing of SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru
Part of the Sri Lankan Civil War
Type 062 gunboat
Type	Suicide attack
Location	Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Planned by	LTTE
Target	SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru
Date	19 April 1995
Executed by	Sea Tigers
Casualties	16 (plus four attackers) killed 21 injured

The bombing of SLNS Sooraya and SLNS Ranasuru was an attack carried out on 19 April 1995 by LTTE suicide frogmen of the Sea Tigers, who attacked and sank two Sri Lanka Navy gun boats moored in the harbor of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka by planting explosives on them.

The attack effectively ended the peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE, resulting in the start of the Eelam War III, the third phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War.