The World - News from April 7, 1989
Sri Lankan rebels blew up an Indian army truck and ambushed a group of soldiers in two separate incidents, killing 24 soldiers and seriously wounding four in the worst attacks on the Indian peacekeeping force in 10 months, officials said. Military officials said the Indian vehicle was passing through the jungle village of Olumadu, 210 miles northeast of the capital of Colombo, when a buried bomb exploded, killing 18 soldiers and seriously wounding four. Officials blamed the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for planting the bomb. Six more Indian soldiers were killed by the rebels near Vavuniya in the north of the Indian Ocean island, they said.
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