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Sri Lanka
One killed, six injured in LTTE attack in Northern Sri Lanka
2007-02-18
(KUNA) -- At least one person was killed and six others were injured Saturday when suspected rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked a bus of Sri Lankan military by triggering a claymore mine, in the northern Jaffna peninsula. Five soldiers who were travelling in the bus were among the injured today, news agency Press Trust of India reported. In another incident in Sri Lanka's eastern Batticaloa district, an officer of the Special Task Force was injured when the LTTE rebels fired at a military camp today, the news agency said.

Meanwhile, LTTE today accused government troops of killing 39 civilians and blamed it for the disappearance of another 39 during the last two weeks. The LTTE, said in a statement in capital Colombo, that the killings had taken place in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka, the news agency reported. The LTTE has been fighting for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils of Sri Lanka since 1980. Over 60,000 people have died in the conflict so far.
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