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Eleven workers killed in eastern Sri Lanka

By: Sri Lanka News

Eleven dead bodies of Muslim civilians were recovered from Ampara district in eastern Sri Lanka on Monday morning.

Military sources said that the bodies were of men, who had gone to work on a water project in Ampara on Sunday, according to the BBC. When they failed to return home, a team

"Tamil Tigers

Ampara district is home to a large number of Sri Lanka's Muslim minority - Muslims are the third largest community in the country after the Sinhalese and Tamils.

More than 60,000 people have been killed in Sri Lanka since the Tamil tigers began their fight in 1970s for a separate homeland for Tamils in the north and east. went to investigate on Monday morning and found the bodies. are suspected of being behind the attack" said army spokesman Brig Prasad Samarasinghe.

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