Rival Sri Lanka Rebel Groups Clash; 25 Die
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — At least 25 Tamil separatist guerrillas were killed in fierce fighting between two rival rebel groups over the weekend in Sri Lanka, residents and military sources said.
Residents said by telephone that the men died when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam guerrilla group, trying to establish its supremacy, clashed with the rival Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front in the island’s northern and eastern areas.
Military sources said the Liberation Tigers, the most powerful of the four main guerrilla groups fighting for a separate state, had lost eight of its fighters and had killed 17 Liberation Front men in the battles that erupted Saturday night.
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