Sri Lankan soldiers on patrol in the Jaffna peninsula in April 2008. At least 52 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in heavy fighting between troops and the guerrillas just outside their northern capital in Sri Lanka, the defence ministry has said. (AFP/File/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)Clashes Near Sri Lankan Rebel HQ Kill 66 - Army -- Reuters
COLOMBO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military killed at least 66 Tamil Tiger insurgents during a siege of the rebel capital and in air and ground assaults along the northern battlefront, the military said on Saturday.
Two soldiers were also killed in Friday's fighting, some of the heaviest since the military three months ago stepped up an advance into an area held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the north of the Indian Ocean island country.
Most of Friday's fighting centred around the LTTE's headquarters town of Kilinochchi, a symbolic and strategic target for the military about 330 km (205 miles) north of the capital, Colombo.
"Troops killed 52 LTTE terrorists in heavy battles in Kilinochchi on Friday," a military spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity. Four rebels and 21 soldiers were wounded in the clashes, the spokesman said.
In other battles along the curving frontline stretching from coast to coast, the military said 14 guerrillas and two soldiers were killed, while 36 rebels and eight soldiers were wounded.
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My Comment: This war is probably the world's worse at this moment. Casualties are running into the hundreds per day ..... with the final push by the Sri Lankan Army now occurring.