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| Sri Lanka |
| Tamil mortars kill soldier, wound 3, says Military |
| 2007-01-01 |
| Tamil Tiger rebels fired mortars at a military camp in eastern Sri Lanka, killing a soldier and wounding three others, the Defense Ministry said Sunday. The attack took place Saturday near Muruvikulama in Batticaloa District, a hotbed of continuing violence between the military and the rebels, said military spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe. “They fired mortars twice at one of our camps and that killed one soldier and wounded three others,” he said. Later Saturday, air force fighter jets bombed a rebel artillery base in the east, near the site of the rebel mortar attack, Samarasinghe said. Planes also pounded and destroyed an insurgent training base in northern Mullaithivu, Samarasinghe said. The rebels said four people were wounded, two seriously, in the airstrikes in the east. In an e-mailed statement, the rebels said the bombs fell on houses in two villages already damaged by earlier attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |