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Dozens killed as fierce battles rage

Written by Harris Badar
Thursday, 09 October 2008
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels said they killed at least 62 soldiers on the frontline south of their headquarters town, which the military on Wednesday dismissed and said it was pressing its advance ahead. Fighting has flared near Kilinochchi, the headquarters of the Liberation Tigers of ... COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels said they killed at least 62 soldiers on the frontline south of their headquarters town, which the military on Wednesday dismissed and said it was pressing its advance ahead. Fighting has flared near Kilinochchi, the headquarters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) located 330 km north of the capital Colombo, with the military within two km of what is a symbolic and strategic target. Pro-rebel website www.tamilnet.com said Tigers had thrown up stiff resistance in southern Kilinochchi district on Tuesday, which killed at least 62 soldiers and injured 49 others. “The SLA offensive units were pushed back in all three fronts,” the website said, quoting unnamed Tiger officials. The military denied the rebel statement and said only six soldiers were wounded from fighting in the area. There was no independent confirmation of the casualties, because the government generally does not let media into the war zone and both sides distort the figures to their benefit. President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government is confident of finishing the ground war soon, having poured money and manpower at it since formally trashing an often-ignored ceasefire inJanuary. The Tigers since 1983 have waged war to create a homeland for Sri Lanka’s minority Tamil people, and in doing so landed on US, EU and Indian terrorism lists for widespread bombings and assassinations of rivals, including Tamils. Meanwhile, scattered battles between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels across Sri Lanka’s embattled north have killed 20 guerrillas, the military said Wednesday. The clashes broke out on Tuesday along the front lines separating government-controlled territory and the de facto rebel state, the military said in a statement. The worst fighting was near the rebel administrative capital of Kilinochchi, where 12 insurgents were killed in three separate clashes, it said. Six soldiers were wounded in those battles, it said. Fighting in Vavuniya, Mullaitivu and Jaffna killed eight rebels and wounded four soldiers, the statement said. On Wednesday, air force helicopters bombed three locations identified as gathering spots for the rebels in the Mullaitivu district, the military said in a separate statement. Pilots confirmed the raids were successful, the statement said, without giving casualty details. With nearly all communications to the north severed, rebel spokesmen could not be contacted for comment.

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3 security men among 4 killed in Charsadda blast CHARSADDA: Three security personnel and a rikshaw driver were killed and over 10 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a government high school in Machni – an area lying in the outskirts of Charsadda and Mohmand Agency.

Sources said, the suicide attacker reached outside the gate of the school in a white flying coach where contingents of security forces were deployed. He blew himself up there, causing a loud blast.

The coach was completely destroyed while four persons were killed including 3 security men and a rikshaw driver. Ten more persons who sustained injuries are being taken to Peshawar from Machni.

The blast was so powerful that it damaged the school building besides shattering th.....

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