LTTE kills 11 Muslims in eastern Sri Lanka
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Sept 18, IRNA
S Lanka-LTTE-Muslims
Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels have hacked to death 11 Muslim construction workers in eastern Sri Lanka, the defence ministry said.
The bodies of the victims were found Monday near Panama in the district of Ampara, PTI reported quoting a ministry official.
The victims were laborers working on an irrigation project. One man escaped with injuries and has been admitted to hospital.
There was no immediate reaction from the Tigers to the massacre which came a day after the Sri Lankan Navy and Air Force bombed and sank a suspected Tiger arms ship off the same coastal region on Sunday.
It was not clear if the two incidents were related, but the Tigers have been accused of attacking minority Muslims in the region.
Earlier, on August 5, the Sri Lankan rebels massacred over 100 civilians fleeing the fighting between the rebels and the security forces in Sri Lanka's northeast.
The victims were shot dead as they tried to escape fighting in the Muslim majority town of Muttur in Trincomalee district.
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