India presses for Sri Lanka truce as casualties rise

2009/04/24 09:52:48 @Reuters: International News

PUTTUMATALAN, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Indian envoys met Sri Lanka's president on Friday after New Delhi demanded a truce in the closing phase of a 25-year war which U.N. data says may have killed almost 6,500 people in the last three months. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ZDkOzcRkgcs:7ZOMvl3hPJs: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=ZDkOzcRkgcs:7ZOMvl3hPJs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=ZDkOzcRkgcs:7ZOMvl3hPJs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=ZDkOzcRkgcs:7ZOMvl3hPJs:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=ZDkOzcRkgcs:7ZOMvl3hPJs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/ZDkOzcRkgcs" height="1" width="1"/
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