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| Sri Lanka |
| One killed, three wounded in Lanka violence |
| 2007-03-05 |
| Separatist Tamil rebels attacked an elite police patrol, killing one officer, in Sri LankaÂ’s volatile east on Sunday, while in the north, a guerrilla mortar attack wounded three soldiers, the military said. Special Task Force officers were patrolling in Ampara district when Tamil Tigers fired at them Sunday morning, said Lt Col Upali Rajapakse, a senior defence ministry official. He said one officer was killed in the attack and another wounded. Separately on Sunday, three soldiers were wounded in an exchange of mortar fire with insurgents in the north, the military said. The rebels fired mortar rounds into Vavuniya district Sunday morning, wounding the three troops, said Rajapakse. Vavuniya is the last government-held region before rebel-held areas in the Tamil-dominated north. Rajapakse said soldiers in the area retaliated to the insurgentsÂ’ attack, but he provided no further details. There was no immediate comment from rebels on either of these incidents. |
| Posted by:Fred |