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Fresh clashes kill 30 in Sri Lanka
Twenty-six Tamil Tigers and five soldiers have been killed in fresh clashes in northern Sri Lanka, the military said yesterday, as the reported death toll from renewed civil war steadily climbs.
Fighting between the military and the Tigers has intensified since the state formally scrapped a six-year-old ceasefire pact in January, and suspected rebel attacks have spread in the government-held south and are increasingly targeting civilians.
?Troops killed 26 LTTE terrorists in a series of clashes in Mannar and Vavuniya on Sunday,? a military spokesman said, referring to two northern districts straddling rebel-held and government land.
The Tigers were not immediately available for comment, and there were no independent accounts of what had happened or how many people were killed.
Since the start of 2006, a total of 6,486 rebels, 1,196 military personnel and 982 civilians have been killed, the military says, estimating there are now only around 5,000 rebel fighters still alive.
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