COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, April 05, SPA -- Sri Lankan forces have killed420 Tamil Tigers in the last three days and pushed therebels back into a «no-fire» zone set up to protectcivilians trapped in the fighting, the military saidSunday. Government troops captured the entire Puthukkudiyiruppuarea, the last rebel stronghold on the edge of the safetyzone in the last pocket of land in the island's war-ravagednorth, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara was quoted as saying by Associated Press. He said the Tamil Tigers are now confined to the«no-fire» zone in a narrow strip of land along a beach innortheastern Sri Lanka.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/651309
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