By Xinhua
Colombo : Fourteen Tamil rebels and a soldier have been killed in fresh fighting in Sri Lanka, the military said Thursday.
The Media Centre for National Security said that eight Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) guerrillas were killed when the troops destroyed six bunkers in Narikkulam in the northern district of Vavuniya Wednesday.
In Vilaththikulam area, also in Vavuniya, five rebels were killed when the troops fired mortars at them.
In a third place, at Kallikulam, a Tamil Tiger was killed by retaliatory fire from the troops. One soldier was also killed and another injured in the incident.
Fighting between the LTTE and the military has largely shifted to the country’s north after the government claimed in July that the eastern province was free of the rebels.