Hospital
workers attend to injured children brought to the main
hospital in Anuradapura. The military said a total of
19 people were killed and 75 wounded when Tamil Tigers
opened fire on them. The victims were among some 1,000
civilians who escaped from Tamil rebel-held territory
amid gun fire from the guerrillas who have been trying
to hold some 100,000 civilians hostage as security forces
keep up a major offensive to crush the guerrillas. AFP
