By SPA,
Colombo, Sri Lanka : Infantry combat and a roadside bomb blast in Sri Lanka’s restive north and east killed 28 Tamil Tiger rebels and four government soldiers, the military said Wednesday.
Twenty-six rebels and two soldiers died in the heaviest fighting Tuesday in northern Mullaitivu district. Two rebels and a soldier were also killed in Vavuniya district,
the military said in a statement quoted by the Associated Press.
The rebels set off a roadside bomb targeting soldiers on a tractor in eastern Batticaloa district, killing one soldier and wounding three others, the statement said.