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Lankan soldiers seize rebel training camp

Airstrikes on retreating Tigers

AP, AFP, Colombo
Sri Lanka soldiers captured a Tamil liger training camp as government troops pressed ahead with their offensive against the guerrillas in the country's embattled north, the military said yesterday.
Sri Lanka's military launched air attacks against the last remaining jungle hideouts of Tamil Tiger rebels after driving them out of their main strongholds, officials said yesterday.
Helicopter gunships supported ground troops advancing deeper into the Mullaittivu region, where the retreating Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) forces are holed up, a military official said.
The defence ministry has said the security forces are ready to deal a "decisive blow” to the rebels after the capture
of the strategic Elephant Pass on Friday.
The military has achieved a string of major victories against the rebels in recent months • including the capture of the Tamil Tiger administrative capital of Kilinochchi a week ago. The government has vowed to crush the separatist guerrillas and end the Indian Ocean island nation's 25-year-old civil war in the comingmonths.
Army soldiers, advancing into the rapidly shrinking rebel territory, captured a rebel training camp near the village of Mulliyaweli in the last rebel stronghold of Mullaitivu on Friday, the military said in a statement.
There were underground bunkers and an auditorium in the camp, the statement said.
The statement did not provide details of
casualties from the fight to capture thecatnp.
Separately, the military said soldiers found three bodies of Tamil rebels killed in lighting in Waddakachchi in the Kilinochchi district.
Hebei spokesmen could not be reached for comment on the fighting. Independent verification of battlefield reports released by the two sides is not possible because journalists are barred from the war zone.
Meanwhile, the pro-rebel TamilNet Web site reported that lour civilians were killed Saturday night in a government artillery assault on a rebel-held village in Mullaitivu.
Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara denied the rebel claim and said the military attacks only identified rebel positions.