COLOMBO, July 3 (AFP): Sri Lankan soldiers killed four suspected Tamil Tiger rebels as fresh fighting flared in the island's troubled northern district, the defence ministry said Tuesday.
Security forces confronted a group of rebels late Monday along a de facto front line at Muhamalai in the Jaffna peninsula and killed four of them, the military said.
The overnight clashes were the latest in a series of attacks that have claimed more than 5,000 lives since fighting in the tropical island's ethnic conflict escalated in December 2005.
Four people killed in fresh Lanka fighting
FE Team | Published: July 04, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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