 (KUNA) -- Nearly 8,000 civilians and aid workers in the Jaffna peninsula in Northern Sri Lanka have begun to leave as the country's Air Force conducted strikes on Tamil rebel targets Friday. Life in the northern Jaffna peninsula has been thrown out of gear for the last three weeks because of fighting between the Tamil rebels and government troops. Details on damage were not immediately available, the news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported from the capital city of Colombo. In the northern Jaffna peninsula, the government has, however, relaxed its curfew for six hours, enabling civilians to purchase essential goods. |