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| Sri Lanka clashes kill 28 troops | Sri Lanka clashes kill 28 troops |
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| Twenty-eight soldiers have been killed and more than 100 wounded during an advance on Tamil Tiger positions, the Sri Lankan army says. | Twenty-eight soldiers have been killed and more than 100 wounded during an advance on Tamil Tiger positions, the Sri Lankan army says. |
| An army spokesman said up to 130 Tiger rebels may have been killed in fighting in the northern Jaffna peninsula - but that figure has not been confirmed. | An army spokesman said up to 130 Tiger rebels may have been killed in fighting in the northern Jaffna peninsula - but that figure has not been confirmed. |
| The government accuses the rebels of starting the latest fighting by attacking their positions in Muhamalai. | The government accuses the rebels of starting the latest fighting by attacking their positions in Muhamalai. |
| Troops have advanced 600m (1,980ft) since Thursday, the army says. | |
| Renewed fighting in Sri Lanka's 20 year civil war began in late July with air strikes on rebel territory amid a dispute over a blocked water supply. | |
| A 2002 ceasefire between the government and rebels still technically holds, although both sides accuse the other of trying to force a full-scale return to war. | |
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| Army spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe confirmed: "We have suffered 28 killed and 119 injured." | |
| He said sources indicated 130 rebels had been killed, Reuters news agency reports. | |
| There has been no word from the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). | |
| The army says the latest fighting around Muhamalai began when rebels fired on their frontline positions on Thursday. | |
| Troops have responded by advancing into rebel territory, backed up artillery and air strikes. | |
| "It's not about capturing land, it's only the neutralising of their frontline," Brig Samarasinghe said. |