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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Two roadside bombs went off in northern Sri Lanka - on Thursday, killing a newspaper vendor and wounding a soldier and a civilian, the military said. Military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe blamed the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for the consecutive blasts in Jaffna Peninsula, a predominantly Tamil area. Samarasinghe said the target of the bombs was a Sri Lankan military patrol, but that the first one killed a newspaper vendor. The second one wounded one soldier and one civilian, he said. The attack was the latest in a surge of violence involving in government troops and the rebels, threatening to destroy a 2002 cease-fire and return the island to full-scale civil war.
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