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Aid workers found executed in Sri Lanka
Sunday, 6 August 2006 16:3315 local aid staff working on post-tsunami rebuilding have been found executed in northeast Sri Lanka after heavy fighting.
The Consortium for Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) said that one of the relief teams that reached the battered town of Mutur had found the corpses in an aid agency office.
'They found them in the office on the ground, lying face down, executed,' said CHA chief Jeevan Thiagarajah.
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He said it was not clear who had killed them. Mutur town has seen days of fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels.
