Attack took place at around 2.00 a.m. today morning.
The gamb set fire to Main Control Room (MCR) of station and it was completely damaged, network's special telecast reported. Networks engineerer however managed to continue channel's broadcasting, channel said.
Media right organizations condemned this attack, naming Sirasa TV as the only TV platform in county for alternative ideas. They blamed government for not taking action to guarantee the security of media institutes.
The Station was also attacked two days earlier.
Sirasa media network was continully criticized by several goverment ministers. It's usual to see Sinhala Nationalist organization campaigning against the station blaming it as LTTE supportive channel, saying that it's owner is a Tamil person.
MTV is the broadcaster of Sri Lanka's only dedicated Tamil language TV channel - Shakthi TV.
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