COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, March 18, SPA -- Fighting across the dense jungles of northern Sri Lanka has killed 12 Tamil Tigerrebels and three government soldiers, the military saidTuesday. An army patrol searching a road for buried mines was hitearly Tuesday by a roadside bomb in the northwestern Mannardistrict that killed one soldier, military spokesmanBrigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said. Mortar fire on thenorthern Jaffna peninsula killed another two soldiersMonday, he said. Meanwhile, fighting along the front lines surrounding therebels' de facto state in the north killed 12 rebelfighters, Nanayakkara was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/537591