COLOMBO, Aug. 28, Reuter: Eleven people killed, including four Tamil Rebels and an Indian Army Officer, in separate incidents in Sri Lanka in the past 24 hours, police and military reports said on Sunday.
Police said gunmen from the people’s liberation front (JUP) on Sunday barged into the house of a man whose family was alleged to have killed four front members and shot him dead, along with his wife and two other men.
The incident occurred west of Matara in the south, two days after the four JVP Members in the area were killed.
In Bandaragama, south of Colombo, the JVP shot dead on Sunday a follower of a political party supporting a current Indian Sri Lankan Pact to end the separatist Tamil conflict. Six others were injured.
The group also shot on Sunday and killed a police constable driving a jeep in Urubokke and injured his two female passengers.
The JVP, composed mainly of majority Sinhalese youth, has been blamed by police for about 400 killings of government official’s policemen and supporters of the pact.
Military officials said Indian Soldier’s hunting Tamil Rebels killed four guerrillas and injured five north of Vavuniya town on Saturday.
An Indian Officer also died in the battle which began when troops raided a heavily fortified’ rebel base.
About 25,000 Indian soldiers have been sent to the north and east to implement the pact.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 2, 1988
