2 die as gunmen storm Lankan newspaper office
Afp, Colombo
Gunmen stormed a Tamil newspaper office in Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula killing two people and further raising the toll in the bloodiest month since a 2002 truce took effect, officials said yesterday. The late Tuesday night attack, on the eve of International Press Freedom Day celebrations, left two people working in the office dead, Media Minister Anura Yapa said in a statement. Journalists and officials initially said only one person died and three others were wounded when masked men opened fire inside the Uthayan newspaper office in Jaffna, 400km north of the capital Colombo. Yapa did not give any figure for the number of injured and it was not immediately clear if one of those hurt had later died from their wounds.
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