Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels detonated a mine in Sri Lanka's restive northeast Friday, wounding at least five people, including two soldiers, the military said, according to AP. The soldiers were traveling in a truck distributing lunch for troops manning checkpoints in Trincomalee area when the Claymore mine exploded, said military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. Claymore mines can be detonated by remote control. He said the blast wounded two soldiers, the truck driver and two bystanders. «This was yet another attack by the LTTE,» Samarasinghe said, calling the rebels by their formal name, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Since Monday, at least 40 people have died in violence blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels, a splinter group that broke away from the Tigers and sectarian fighting between Tamils and the country's majority ethnic Sinhalese. The mainstream rebels want to carve out a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's 3.2 million Tamil minority.
