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Tamil Tiger planes raid Colombo   Colombo in Tamil planes attack
Two planes belonging to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have
attacked the capital Colombo, killing two people and injuring
about 45, officials say.  Both planes were downed, one of them
hitting inland revenue offices, where the casualties occurred,
officials said. The building was badly damaged.  The other plane
was shot down near the city's airport, which was closed.  The
raid comes as the army has driven the Tigers into a shrinking
zone of jungle in the north of Sri Lanka.  We were right in the
middle of an arc of gunfire and there were search lights into
the sky trying to pick out aircraft Barry Walker British man in
Colombo  A pro-rebel website, TamilNet, said the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had claimed what it described as
"successful air raids".  They involved "diving into Sri Lanka
Air Force (SLAF) Headquarters in Colombo and into the SLAF base
at Katunayaka", 35km (2