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Sri Lankan soldier shot dead

By V. S. Sambandan

COLOMBO: One Sri Lankan army soldier was killed and another injured when they were shot by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) inside the "no-man's zone" in the northern Jaffna peninsula. According to army sources, an unarmed soldier had walked about 250 metres into the 400-metre zone of separation at the Muhamalai forward defence lines in northern Sri Lanka when he was shot dead by an LTTE cadre manning a rebel bunker. The other soldier, who went to rescue the soldier was shot at and was taken to hospital. Wednesday's killing, on the day when Sri Lanka's ceasefire enters the fourth year, is against the backdrop of the LTTE's assertion that it was "running out of patience" with no progress in reviving the peace negotiations.

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