[1] LTTE cadres also attacked the village adjoining the camp killing 9 civilians including women and children by means of shooting, knifing and grenades as a warning to the Sinhalese population in Weli Oya.

[2] The army had suffered 24 killed, 20 missing and 31 wounded in addition to the loss of Rs 50 million worth of weaponry and equipment, which the LTTE removed from the camp.

Having been called the greatest defeat faced by the army to that point in the Sri Lankan Civil War, the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe questioned the incident at the National Security Council and the President D. B. Wijetunga expressed his displeasure of how the army had handled the matter.

The Army Commander Lieutenant General Cecil Waidyaratne deflected blame to the Joint Operations Command which handled strategy and deployment of troops and Brigadier Parry Liyanage claimed that he lacked civilian cooperation and local intelligence.

In November 1993, the LTTE launched a massive attack on Pooneryn with weapons it captured from Janakapura which lead to the deaths of over 200 army personnel and General Waidyaratne retired in December 1993.