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Sri Lankan army says overruns Tiger town in Jaffna

Published January 7, 2009, 11:54 pm, Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops overran a Tamil Tiger-held town and the air force destroyed rebel boats in an intensifying battle for the separatists' last redoubt on the strategic Jaffna Peninsula, the military said on Thursday.

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