Tamil faction&#39;s No. 2 killed as violence rises
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COLOMBO Tamil Tiger rebels killed the No. 2 leader of a renegade guerrilla faction involved in fighting between the two groups amid a surge in violence that has threatened Sri Lanka&#39;s fragile cease-fire, military and rebel sources said Thursday.
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Two Sri Lanka Red Cross volunteers were found murdered on Sunday, police said, two days after they were abducted from the capital amid renewed civil war between the state and Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's embattled north left 31 guerrillas and one soldier dead, the military said Saturday.
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Sri Lanka's military said on Friday troops had killed 29 Tamil Tigers in a series of land clashes over 24 hours, as the death toll from renewed civil war continued its inexorable climb.
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Fierce fighting erupted in northern Sri Lanka Monday as government forces mounted a fresh push into territory held by Tiger rebels, with the official death toll from the new clashes at more than 50.
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Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged mortar and artillery fire across their northern front lines Monday, as the military said the death toll from five days of heavy fighting rose to 148.
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Sri Lankan troops have killed at least 34 Tamil Tiger rebels over the last two days, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday, as heavy fighting in the restive north deepens the island's renewed civil war.
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Gunmen have shot dead two civilians in Sri Lanka&#39;s northern Jaffna peninsula, officials said Sunday as the government and Tamil Tigers blamed each other for the latest in a string of such killings.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels and two soldiers also died in clashes in the north, the military said on Sunday, as stepped-up fighting continues in the latest chapter of a long-running civil war.
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At least 25 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in fresh military attacks along the de-facto border of territory held by the guerrillas, the defence ministry said Friday.
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Colombo, Sept 23 (PTI) In growing factional fighting, four people, including a brother of renegade LTTE leader Karuna were today shot dead by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka.
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At least 26 people, including two security personnel, were killed in a fresh wave of violence in Sri Lanka&#39;s embattled north, the defence ministry said.
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Sinhalas and Tamils clash again in eastern Sri Lanka after a grenade attack on a bus leaves one person dead.
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The truce between Sri Lanka's warring parties has been stretched to breaking point after one of the bloodiest days in the island's recent history left at least 67 soldiers and Tamil rebels dead.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 41 Tamil Tiger fighters in a series of weekend clashes in the island's civil war-ravaged north, while three soldiers were also killed, the military said on Monday.
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David Kimutai Too was shot in the Rift Valley town of Eldoret, the second member of parliament for the Orange Democratic Movement killed this week, the party said.
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The intelligence head of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels is killed, as violence continues in the north of the island.