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The resettlement of internally displaced families from Muruththanai village in Kiraan, Koralaipattu south, division in Batticaloa district, expected to take place Tuesday, 12 August, has been put off indefinitely due to tense situation in the area, sources said.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna introduced a new security arrangement since Monday in Vadamaraadchi and Thenmaraadchi areas where SLA troops are posted near electricity transformers besides getting local residents to pile sand bags around the area. The recent damages caused to transformers in the said areas by being fired upon by unknown persons.

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Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from its bases in Ma?nalaa?ru area launched artillery and Multi-barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL) fire Monday around 6:50 p.m on Kumu?lamunai, Chemmalai and Nedungkea?ni residential areas in Vanni killing a 57-year-old man and seriously injuring two, including a 46-year-old woman in Kumu?lamunai.

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Sri Lanka may win the battle against the Tamil Tigers but not the war as ‘they haven’t got the Tamil population on their side’, India’s National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan said in an interview with the Straits Times newspaper published Tuesday. Saying India understands the Tamils, Mr. Narayanan asked of Sri Lanka, ?Do they want a situation like many countries have faced?? His comments come after a survey in a leading Tamil Nadu weekly suggested the majority of people there support the LTTE and want Indian intervention in Sri Lanka.

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The gas cylinder in a boat with four fishermen exploded Tuesday around 8:00 a.m in the sea between Vaakarai and Maangkea?ni in Batticaloa district, killing two of them and seriously injuring the other two fishermen, sources in Batticaloa said.

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A 56-year old Tamil civilian was shot dead Monday afternoon by two unidentified persons who arrived in a motorbike when the victim was fencing the office of the Periyakulam Grama Niladhari (village level officer), sources said.

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A Tamil civilian was shot dead by unidentified persons riding a motorbike shot dead at Karamaanthapuram, a Tamil village in Buttala division in Moneragala district, Sunday evening. The victim was riding in his motorbike when he was shot dead, police sources said.

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Twenty-one Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed in the early hours of Sunday at Ki’laali in the Northern Front when Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) ‘Deep Penetration Units’ entered the SLA controlled territory and launched an attack on SLA troopers, according to well-placed Sri Lankan military sources.

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Nineteen Tamil civilians were arrested in two separate cordon and search operations conducted by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police since Sunday evening till morning on Monday at Gampaha and Kandy towns, police sources said.

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One of the five girl students abducted by unidentified armed men in a van Saturday in Paddiruppu area managed to escape when the van stopped at Kiraan Aachchiramam area in Vaazhaichcheanai police division in Batticaloa district, sources in Vaazhaichcheanai said. The fate of the other four girls remains unknown.

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