11 killed in a fresh violence in Sri Lanka
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, July 1, IRNA
Sri-Lanka-Violence
At least 11 people, including one soldier and a sailor, were killed in fresh violence in Sri Lanka.
Another five people, including a sailor, were killed in renewed clashes in the past 24 hours while the Tiger rebels said six more had been killed in fresh violence in the past two days, a PTI report said here.
The Tigers killed the sailor Friday in an apparent bid to draw fire from the security forces towards Muslim devotees attending Friday prayers.
However, the military acted with restraint, yet managed to gun down the attacker.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said three civilians were killed in a Claymore mine attack in the Kokkupadaiyan area two days ago and blamed the Sri Lankan military for the blast.
Another three men were gunned down in the east of the island later that night, just hours before a key meeting of five Nordic nations to decide the future of their monitoring mission in Sri Lanka.
The Oslo-arranged meeting in the Norwegian capital lasted five hours yesterday but ended without an announcement of a breakthrough to end the crisis over truce monitoring.
The meeting was called after the LTTE demanded that monitors from European Union nations Denmark, Finland and Sweden quit the mission, saying they could no longer be neutral after the EU labelled the group a terrorist organization.
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