Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels kill 13 workers

Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels raided a village in eastern Sri Lanka, abducted 14 Sinhalese labourers and shot 13 dead.

The reason for the attack late yesterday at a state-run immigration project in Mhasenpura village, Batticaloa district, was not immediately clear. But a government spokesman called it a “sinister plot” by the rebels to provoke a Sinhalese backlash.