COLOMBO: Three shells slammed into a make-shift hospital in Sri Lanka's northeastern war zone on Wednesday, killing 38 civilians, a doctor said."Three shells hit the hospital today and 38 people were killed," T. Varatharajah, a doctor working at the facility in Mullivaikal, said.He said the attack followed a similar strike on Tuesday, when 47 people were reported killed and 56 wounded.He did not say who was responsible for the shelling, although the rebels blamed government forces for the attack.The Sri Lankan military denies it is using heavy weapons in the area. Sri Lankan authorities also say that doctors there are hostages of the Tigers and have questioned the credibility of their accounts.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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