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Fighting rages in Sri Lanka despite pledge to shelve heavy weapons
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⢠Five patients 'died in hospital air attack'
⢠Colombo bans Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt
* Gethin Chamberlain
* guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 28 April 2009 12.32 BST
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trapped, the day after the government in Colombo announced it was
ending the use of heavy weapons.
Despite the promise to end air strikes, artillery and heavy machine
guns to protect civilians, several air attacks were reported in the
morning, including one on a hospital, which is said to have killed
five patients and injured a member of staff.
The Sri Lankan military also said it had used naval guns to sink a
Tamil Tiger boat.
The violence came as diplomatic pressure mounts on Colombo to halt the
campaign, giving the trapped civilians a chance to escape.
Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, and the French foreign
minister, Bernard Kouchner, are due to arrive in Colombo indie style but
their Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt's plans to join them were
thwarted when the Sri Lankan government took the extraordinary step of
preventing him from entering the country.
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"This is remarkable," Bildt told the Associated Press by phone from
Luxembourg. "You just don't act this way."
Bildt said Sweden would recall its ambassador from Colombo for
discussions in response to the decision.
Pictures purportedly taken in the so-called no-fire zone today show
spouts of water rising into the air just off the beach, apparently
from where bombs or artillery shells had fallen. Other pictures showed
dead bodies, burned buildings and plumes of smoke from what appears to
be explosions. Reports from the area are impossible to verify because
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Gordon Brown reportedly telephoned the Sri Lankan president, Mahinda
Rajapaksa, on Sunday to pledge £2.5m for humanitarian assistance for
displaced civilians.
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