Lankan troops kill 10 rebel women

COLOMBO, February 3: Sri Lankan soldiers have shot dead 10 women LTTE rebels and captured another while clearing a northern military camp af...

COLOMBO, February 3: Sri Lankan soldiers have shot dead 10 women LTTE rebels and captured another while clearing a northern military camp after a weekend battle with the rebels, officials in the north said today.

Troops confronted the guerrillas in the northern region of Kilinochchi yesterday after a major battle in which nearly 400 combatants died, they said.

“The women (rebels) were either trying to get out of the camp or had come in to sabotage,” a senior military official said on phone from northern Jaffna. He said the military had cleared the LTTE rebels from most of the area around the camp, apart from the southern tip of a town also called Kilinochchi.

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The army’s death toll rose to 48 today after troops found more bodies of soldiers and some of the seriously wounded died in hospital, officials said. The combined death toll now stands at 398, military officials said.

However, the clandestine voice of Tiger Radio, monitored in the northern frontier town of Vavuniya, put the rebel death toll atonly 150 and said the fighting had continued into Monday.

The rebel radio said the LTTE was still holding strong in pockets. The battle began on Saturday when LTTE guerrillas attacked troops in east of Paranthan and continued until the early hours of Sunday.

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