Sri Lanka reprisals claim 50 killed in coast attack
News summaries say about 50 Tamil speakers were hacked and burned to death in Sri Lanka as reprisals for a Tamil insurgent raid that killed nearly 150. Police cited navy involvement in a Jaffna Peninsula ferry attack, though a Colombo official denied navy participation.
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