Sri Lanka in jungle deaths probe
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A police investigation begins in Sri Lanka after 16 bodies are found at a jungle location in government-held territory.
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Sri Lankan troops killed at least 20 Tamil Tigers in heavy fighting near a "border" that separates government and rebel-held terrain in northern Sri Lanka overnight, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
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COLOMBO A military spokesman raised the estimated number of deaths in Sri Lanka caused by devastating waves by more than 5,000 people on Monday, increasing estimates of the death toll from the regional catastrophe to more than 20,000 people.
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Hundreds are reported dead in Sri Lanka and many other countries are affected, from India to Indonesia. Readers of the BBC News website have been sending in their own experiences of the disaster.
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Police on Wednesday investigated the death of a billionaire Georgian opposition leader accused of fomenting a coup in the ex-Soviet state which they said was "suspicious".
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Sri Lankan troops killed around 30 Tamil Tiger fighters overnight in a jungle on the island's restive east and captured a rebel bunker line, the military said on Wednesday.
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Sept 29, Colombo: The Norwegian government has expressed serious concern over the political killings in Sri Lanka. Norwegian Ambassador in Colombo Hans Brattskar made this statement when he met SP Tamilselvan
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The bodies of 16 civilians beaten to death in northern Sri Lanka have been found, after fighting between rebels and government troops left 31 dead, the Sri Lankan military said today.
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CHENNAI: Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan, who unleashed a reign of terror in the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka forests killing over 120 policemen and officials, including a former Minister, was shot dead on Monday night by the Tamil Nadu Special Task Force.
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Urgent efforts are being made in Sri Lanka to bury the thousands of people killed by Sunday&#39;s sea surges to prevent the spread of disease.
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A United Nations investigator said on  Tuesday that "political killings" continued apace in Sri Lanka  and called for international human rights monitors to be sent  to the island.
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POPTUN, Guatemala  - Ten months after the deaths of eight Guatemalan peacekeepers in a botched raid in the Congo jungle, two U.N. investigations have failed to solve the mystery of whether they died in friendly fire or were gunned down by rebels.
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Sri Lankan policemen and soldiers, as well as underworld figures, have been arrested in connection with a rash of killings and abductions in the latest chapter of the two-decade civil war, police said on Tuesday.
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Sri Lanka Cricket investigates allegations of drunken misconduct by two players.
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A Sri Lankan probe into rights abuses blamed on security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels looks set to end in failure, international experts warned on Friday as Amnesty International demanded an outside monitoring operation.
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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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Wild elephants and farmers are killing each other at an alarming rate in Sri Lanka, so hundreds of wildlife officers and villagers fanned out into forests on Monday to find ways to broker peace.