Sri Lanka troops kill 4 suspected IS gunmen
A Sri Lanka soldier searching a man's car in Colombo on Thursday. Security forces have killed at least 4 suspected Islamic State-linked militants in a shootout today. – EPA pic, April 27, 2019.
SRI Lankan security forces exchanged fire with suspected Islamic State affiliated militants and killed at least four of them in the east of the country, police and the military said today. Gunmen opened fire on troops when they attempted to storm a house in the town of Kalmunai, military spokesman Sumith Atapattu said. “In our retaliatory fire, two gunmen were killed,” he said adding that a civilian caught in the crossfire was also killed.
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