Hours after it was announced that the Government and the Tigers had agreed to hold talks in Geneva on June 8, a soldier was killed in an LTTE attack on an Army foot patrol at Kalmaduwa, Kovil Puliyankulama in Vavuniya yesterday (29).

The deceased was identified as K. M. W. Bandara. His body was taken to the Vavuniya Hospital for a post mortem.

He was killed when a group of LTTE cadres ambushed the foot patrol. The soldiers had returned fire towards the jungle where the LTTE cadres hiding but it was not known whether any were killed or injured in the counter attack, police said.