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| Sri Lanka |
| Bomb blast, clash kill four Lankan soldiers |
| 2007-05-22 |
| A roadside bomb planted by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed two soldiers in Sri Lanka’s restive north yesterday hours after insurgents had shot dead two soldiers in the island’s east overnight, the military said. “Two soldiers were killed in a Claymore (fragmentation mine blast) in Vavuniya this morning,” said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe. He was referring to the district 260km north of Colombo, where fighting has shifted since the fall of the Tigers’ eastern stronghold. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are fighting for an independent state in Sri Lanka’s north and east, were not immediately available for comment on the attacks, which come amid sporadic land and sea clashes. |
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