Ten killed in Sri Lanka

Published April 20, 2006

COLOMBO, April 19: Ten more people have been killed in Sri Lanka, police and Tamil Tiger rebels said on Wednesday, as two Claymore mine blasts wounded four people.

A foreign national, believed to be a Southeast Asian, was among those wounded on Wednesday, police said, adding that his vehicle was hit by a Claymore mine in the northern district of Vavuniya.

The blasts came as police found the bodies of five men killed near a military camp in Puttur where a mine attack wounded two soldiers on Monday, police said.—AFP

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