Three Sri Lankan soldiers shot dead

Three Sri Lankan soldiers were found shot dead after an argument between them in the Tamil-majority Jaffna peninsula, the army said on Friday. The three soldiers were the first to be killed in the far northern peninsula since the end of the Indian Ocean island's civil war in 2009, when government forces defeated the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels after 37 years of fighting.
But the army said in a statement on its website: "Initial inquiries have revealed that the shooting was due to a personal dispute among the three soldiers and that there was no third party involvement."