NUWARA ELIYA, April 29: Three Tamil men were killed and four wounded when police opened fire on mobs to curb communal clashes between Tamils and Sinhalese in Kandapola, 16 kilomtres from Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka's main hill country town and holiday resort, late on Wednesday night.
A curfew has been declared in the area. The clashes erupted after a road accident. A senior Tamil MP of the Ceylon Workers' Congress slammed police for precipitating the communal violence.
"Police acted in a very partial manner," he said. Fourteen Tamil shops, a bar and a petrol station belonging to Sinhalese were ransacked during the riots.
