| Sri Lankan air force planes bombed a Tamil Tiger rebel training camp and a gun position in the north on Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said, in the latest violence to hit the country. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), however, denied any of their military assets were hit in the northern Vavuniya district, and accused the Sri Lankan air force of killing two civilians in the airstrikes. “We have taken two identified targets which were primarily a training camp of the LTTE and the other was a gun position from where they were targeting our troops,” military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan denied the statement. “The so-called training centre that the Sri Lankan state is saying is a civilian area, and until now we have recovered two bodies of civilians,” he said by telephone from the rebels’ headquarters in Kilinochchi, north of Vavuniya. |