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Southeast Asia
Sri Lanka aid workers 'shot dead'
2006-08-07
Fifteen local employees of a French charity have been found shot dead in the strife-torn town of Muttur in northern Sri Lanka, aid workers say. An official from the group, Action Against Hunger, said the bodies had been found in the agency's office.

“A pro-Tamil Tiger website blamed the government for the killings but the military rejected the claim.”
The Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, which found the bodies of the aid workers, said it was unclear who had committed the killings. The director-general of Action Against Hunger, Benoit Miribel, said the organisation had not suffered such a loss in its 25 years of existence. He said the group had wanted to send a team to the area but was prevented by soldiers. "Our sympathy is with the families of the victims and with all the civilians affected by this massacre, whose scale is not known," Mr Miribel said.

The ethnic-Tamil aid workers had been working on post-Asian tsunami relief and reconstruction. A pro-Tamil Tiger website blamed the government for the killings but the military rejected the claim.
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