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COLOMBO, Sept 15: At least 26 people, including two security personnel, were killed in a fresh wave of violence in Sri Lanka’s embattled north, the defence ministry said on Saturday.
The two soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb set off by suspected Tamil Tiger in the Jaffna peninsula on Friday night, the ministry said, adding seven troopers were also wounded.
In the same region, security forces shot dead 10 members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) when they tried to break through army defence lines on Friday, the ministry said.—AFP
