A fresh wave of killings gripped Sri Lanka's embattled northeast with 14 people being shot dead in separate incidents, police and military officials said on Sunday.
Unidentified gunmen attacked the home of a local resident in Kayts in the Jaffna peninsula on Saturday and shot dead nine people, including four children and wounded two more, the military said.
Three more civilians were gunned down in a separate incident in Kayts on Saturday night.
Security sources believe that the killings may be linked to the island's Tamil separatist conflict.
Two people were shot dead in the restive northeastern port district of Trincomalee this morning and the victims were allegedly killed by a breakaway faction of Tamil Tigers, police said.
One man was riding a cycle when he was killed while the other was driving a tractor when he was gunned down, police said.
There have been a spate of tit-for-tat killings in the restive regions in recent weeks.
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