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Sri Lanka clashes kill 43


Published: May 8, 2008 at 3:06 AM
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 8 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan officials say their forces killed 43 Tamil Tiger rebels in separate clashes in the northern region of the Indian Ocean island nation.

The media center for national security denied the Tigers had overrun an army camp in the region's Sattaru district, one of the places where fighting took place Wednesday, the Press Trust of India reported.

Separately, the center said two civilians died in a bomb explosion suspected to have been carried out by the rebels near the Vavuniya municipal grounds.

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