By Prensa Latina,
Colombo : At least 23 Tamil separatists and a governmental soldier died in combat over the last few hours in northern Sri Lanka, affirmed the Defense Ministry Wednesday.
According to a military release in Colombo clashes were registered in Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mannar.
The troops also destroyed three bunkers of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Tigers (TELT) and confiscated about 400 explosive mines and other armaments.
The TELT have been fighting since July 1983 for an independent State in the eastern and northern regions where the Tamil ethnicity represents the majority over the Singhalese predominance in the rest of this Indian Ocean island.
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