One boat belonging to Tamil Tiger rebels was destroyed by government troops in a clash in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the military said.
The military said in a statement that the troops observed two boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sailing from Kalmunai Point to Ariyalai in the northern Jaffna peninsula and fired artillery rounds against them early morning.
One boat was destroyed but the other boat speeded away, said the military, adding that the rebels on the ill-fated boat might have been killed.
Clashes between LTTE rebels and government troops have been happening frequently in northern Sri Lanka since mid-September.
Claiming discrimination at the hands of the Sinhala majority, the LTTE has been fighting the government since the mid-1980s to establish a separate homeland for the minority Tamils in the north and east.
More than 5,000 people have been killed in the new wave of violence sine the end of 2005, making the Norwegian brokered ceasefire agreement exist only on paper.
Source: Xinhua
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