Soldiers overran separatist Tamil rebel bunkers and traded artillery fire across Sri Lanka's embattled north Saturday leaving 26 insurgents dead, the military said. Troops destroyed four bunkers in the Nagarkovil and Muhamalai areas of the Jaffna peninsula killing six Tamil Tiger rebels, the Defense Ministry said in a statement. Soldiers meanwhile attacked two bunkers in Adampan village, Mannar district, and exchanged artillery rounds with the rebels, killing 10 of them, the statement said. In Parappaankandal village, also in Mannar, soldiers overran six rebel bunkers and killed 10 guerrillas, the military's statement said. Eight soldiers were wounded in Saturday's clashes, it added, the Associated Press reported.
