(KUNA) -- Violence Monday claimed 10 lives in the Northern and Eastern parts of Sri Lanka in renewed violence in the island nation. Suspected cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) triggered a claymore mine, killing two policemen and injuring another in Vavuniya in the island nation, today evening, news agencies reported.This incident occured after another claymore mine was triggered by LTTE against a Sri Lankan army patrol, killing one soldier and injuring two others in Jaffna in Northern Sri Lanka also on Monday, the news agencies said.
In two separate incidents in Eastern Sri Lanka, three bodies belonging to minority Tamils and four others from the majority Sinhala community were recovered by Sri Lankan Army today, the news agencies reported.