Sri Lanka war exodus at 39,000 as deadline nears

2009/04/21 01:18:59 @Reuters: International News

COLOMBO (Reuters) - An exodus of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka's war zone topped 39,000 and more were coming, the military said on Tuesday before its final deadline for the Tamil Tiger rebels to surrender or die was to expire. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=DECP49Yv4MU:LDPglrkiiGw:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=DECP49Yv4MU:LDPglrkiiGw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=DECP49Yv4MU:LDPglrkiiGw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=DECP49Yv4MU:LDPglrkiiGw:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=DECP49Yv4MU:LDPglrkiiGw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/DECP49Yv4MU" height="1" width="1"/
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