Bodies exchanged as fighting continues
The International Committee of the Red Cross in Sri Lanka says it's handed over to the Sri Lankan army the bodies of twenty-five of their soldiers.
Tamil Tiger rebels said the soldiers were killed over the past two days in clashes near the northern town of Kilinochchi.
A spokesman for the ICRC said they had also handed over to the Tigers a body of a rebel killed in the fighting.
The Army say that they have so far identified only eighteen of them since some of them were badly mutilated or injured.
The website adds that, 'However, the Army is to decide on the remaining seven soon after preliminary investigations are over'.
Meanwhile, the pro Tamil Tiger website Tamilnet claims that the LTTE had killed one hundred and seventy soldiers and recovered thirty five bodies. Another three hundred were wounded in the fighting, it said.
Source: BBC Sinhala.com
some of the modayas in LNP are posting that ICRC has refused of any exchange of bodies.....can they give source for the ICRC refusal. |