The World - News from Sept. 3, 1989

Sri Lankan military officials said Sinhalese militants killed seven soldiers in the south of the Indian Ocean island nation, a day after officials and witnesses reported that 62 people died in violence inspired by the radicals’ anti-government campaign. Six soldiers were killed and four others were injured when militants detonated explosives in a village about 85 miles south of Colombo, the capital. In a separate attack in a Colombo suburb, one soldier died and four others were injured when radicals opened fire on a military patrol, officials said.