Sri Lanka rebels kill four in raids on army and police

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers attacked soldiers and rural police in two separate pre-dawn raids on Wednesday, killing four people, the military said, though the rebels said the death toll was higher. The clashes were the latest in a spree of near-daily land and sea battles, ambushes and killings amid a new chapter in a war that has killed nearly 70,000 people since 1983.
Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a police post in the northern district of Vavuniya and fired at a sentry post in the north-western district of Mannar, a day after air force fighter jets pounded rebel targets in the far north.