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 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Clashes between Sri Lankan soldiers and Tamil rebels in the island's north have killed about 30 people, the two sides said Wednesday.
The clashes broke out a day earlier near the frontier separating government- and guerrilla-held areas in northern Sri Lanka — violence that each side accused the other of instigating.
A military spokesman, Lt. Col. Upali Rajapakse, said unprovoked rebel mortar fire killed a soldier at a checkpoint, forcing the army to respond with its own artillery and mortar fire that left at least 20 insurgents dead.
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