41.   Letters carrying the rebel warning have been received by Mohamed Hisbullah, the lawmaker, and at least five other local citizens in Kattankudi village in eastern Batticaloa district.

42.   Meanwhile, in the jungles in eastern Batticaloa district, eight police commandos were killed in a guerrilla ambush at Vellaveli on Saturday evening, officials said.

43.   Military officials in Colombo denied attacking civilians but said the air force had bombed rebel positions in the eastern Batticaloa district.

44.   On Friday, two rebels were killed in a military ambush at Pavakkodichchenai village in eastern Batticaloa district.

45.   On Monday, four policemen were injured when their vehicle was blown up by a rebel land-mine in the eastern Ampara district.

46.   On Saturday, a rebel detonated bombs strapped to his body as a military truck passed him on a bridge in the eastern Batticaloa district.

47.   On Sunday afternoon, soldiers ambushed and killed seven guerrillas on a jungle road near Sittaru village in the eastern Trincomalee district, officials said.

48.   On Sunday, a policeman was shot and killed by rebels at Alankerni village in the eastern Trincomalee district, the military said.

49.   On Tuesday, during cordon and search operations by the military in eastern Batticaloa district, troops shot dead two rebels in separate confrontations.

50.   One person was killed and six wounded in pre-election violence in the eastern Azamgarh district Sunday, police said.