The World - News from Sept. 9, 1985
New communal violence was reported on the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka. Indian news agencies quoted Sri Lankan Tamils living in Madras as saying that thugs of the Sinhalese majority set fire to a bus, killing 35 Tamils, and that Sinhalese security forces burned three villages in the northern region, killing 50 Tamils. The Sri Lankan government said it had no information about the bus incident, and later, officials could not be reached to comment on the reported raids on Tamil villages.
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