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One wounded villager who made it to hospital told the BBC “tanks stormed in” to his village without warning.

“I will never vote for Namal Rajapaksa. The years of hardship we have lived are a curse on that family,” HM Sepalika, a villager who’s been resettled in Vavuniya in the north, told BBC Sinhala.

“Good luck to the bloke”, said villager Adrian.

The Palestinian health ministry said a local villager in his early 20s was killed and another person critically injured in the chest.

But unregulated deforestation from irresponsible farming practices and abuse of forest resources have led to disastrous consequences, said villager Sumini, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.