Up to 1,000 dead in Sri Lanka attacks 'bloodbath'

Two days of shelling in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone killed at least 430 civilians – and probably as many as 1,000 – a government doctor said today.

The United Nations called the artillery barrages a “bloodbath” which killed more than 100 children, and a coalition of international human rights groups called for the UN Security Council to hold formal talks on the war.