14 Slain by Tamil Rebels in Sri Lanka
Tamil guerrillas killed 14 Sinhalese--beheading four of them--after ambushing their vehicles on a country road, Sri Lankan police and military officials said Saturday.
Assistant Police Superintendent Ebert De Alwis said by telephone that 25 to 30 rebels dressed in army fatigues emerged Friday from the jungles in in Meegaswewa, 135 miles to the east of Colombo, and fired at two trucks, a tractor and four bicycles on a gravel road.
The rebels, believed to be from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam separatist group, then killed 12 men and two women using machetes and automatic rifles.
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