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Sri Lanka says jets bomb 2 rebel camps in far north
28 Jun 2007 05:27:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
COLOMBO, June 28 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed two Tamil Tiger camps in the island's far north on Thursday, the military said, the second batch of air strikes in three days, but there were no immediate details of any casualties.

"We have hit a military base in Mullaithivu (on the northeast coast) -- it is really two camps located close to another," said military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe.

In a separate incident, two soldiers were killed in the northern Jaffna peninsula by a roadside bomb, the latest in a spree of such attacks in recent months amid renewed civil war.

The separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were not immediately available for comment.
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Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapakse walks past school children as he leads a state ceremony in Colombo to honor troops, July 19, 2007. With a parade of tanks, military brass bands and the roar of fighter jets overhead, Sri Lanka's government on Thursday feted the capture of the Tamil Tigers' last bastion in the east.



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