Colombo, May 09: Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels shot dead a government soldier and wounded another in the eastern Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa today mounting fresh strains on an already fragile truce, officials said. A soldier attached to a military intelligence unit was taken out of a bus and shot dead in day light, a local official in Batticaloa, 300 kilometres east of here said by telephone.
Another colleague escaped with injuries. The killing came as Tamil Tigers charged that Sri Lankan troops were behind the killing of several of their cadres in Batticaloa and warned that the murders placed the Norwegian-backed peace process in jeopardy.
Bureau Report