COLOMBO: Three Tamil Tiger rebels blew themselves up at sea yesterday after being caught with a cache of weapons, highlighting the legacy of mistrust from Sri Lanka's civil war just hours ahead of peace talks in Germany.
Two Nordic truce monitors and a translator jumped overboard to escape the explosion after boarding a boat to investigate weapons, including an anti-aircraft gun and hand grenades, officials from the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) said.
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