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Colombo: Battles across Sri Lanka's volatile north killed 14 ethnic Tamil rebels and one government soldier, the military said on Tuesday.
In the worst fighting on Monday, soldiers killed six rebels in the Mannar region bordering the rebels' de facto state, a Defense Ministry official said.
One soldier was wounded in the confrontation, he said.
In the Welioya district, separate clashes killed three rebels and one soldier, he said.
Other fighting in the Jaffna and Vavuniya regions killed five rebels and wounded six soldiers, he said.
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