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The LTTE after agreeing to halt operations for 48 hours for a temporary cease-fire to aid children in the war zones to be immunized against polio, violated the truce after firing mortars at troops in the northern Jaffna peninsula yesterday, military sources revealed. "The LTTE fired at army defences in Nagar Kovil but the army did not retaliate as we did not wish to violate the cease-fire agreement," military spokesman Brigadier Sanath Karunaratne said. However, there were no casualties from the LTTE's dawn attack which came on the first day of the cease-fire, he said. The polio campaign was coupled with an initiative by aid workers to get children in war areas to attend school, UN officials said. The UN children's' fund UNICEF had asked both sides to observe "days of tranquility" on Friday and Saturday.
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