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TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Artillery fire killed at least 15 civilians sheltering from fighting in Sri Lanka on Thursday, the army said, as troops battled Tamil Tiger rebels and the island slipped back toward civil war.
More than 800 people have died this year and ambushes, air strikes and naval clashes had become commonplace, but it was a dispute over a rebel-held water supply that led to the first major ground fighting last week since a 2002 ceasefire.
The center of fighting on Thursday was the government-held and mainly Muslim town of Mutur, just south of Trincomalee harbour in the northeast of the country.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels moved into Mutur on Wednesday.