COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said a government bombing raid hit an orphanage in rebel territory in the island's north on Monday, killing 43 schoolgirls and wounding 60 as the worst fighting since a 2002 truce raged.   
 
“The Sri Lankan air force bombed the premises of an orphanage where schoolgirls were studying first aid,” Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam spokesman I Ilanthirayan said.
 
“Forty-three... students were killed and 60 wounded.”
 
A military source said air raids had been launched on rebel territory on Monday but said they had no details of targets hit or casualties