S.Lanka says foils deadly ambush as war fears mount
Troops found a boobytrapped claymore fragmentation mine in Sri Lanka’s far north and suspected rebels lobbed grenades at army bunkers, the military said on Wednesday, amid mounting fears of a return to civil war. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) accused the army of abducting a Tamil youth from his home in the army-held northern enclave of Jaffna and threatening to shoot his mother, the latest in a litany of reported army abuses the rebels warn could spark war. Full Story