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Soldier injured in grenade attack
A soldier was injured when an army sentry point in Chullipuram, Jaffna came under a grenade attack last night, the military said.

The grenade was hurled at around 7:30 pm from behind a building, paving an easy get-away for the attackers, said military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe,.

“This is a terrorist act,” he said, stopping short of blaming the attack on the LTTE. The latest violence comes barely three days after the government and the LTTE agreed to hold talks in Geneva, breaking an almost three-year deadlock.

The government has expressed hope that the wave of violence, which killed more than 100 people last month, will cease after the agreement to resume talks.

Although sporadic attacks continue, there has been a sharp reduction of violence since Thursday’s breakthrough.
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