The Sierra Leone Army (SLA) claims to have killed about two dozen Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels last week, Reuters reported military sources as saying on Friday.
The sources said there was fighting on a daily basis as government forces tried to capture towns in Kambia District in northern Sierra Leone.
Some 25 rebels were attacked and killed on 2 August by an army helicopter gunship while trying to flee the fighting by crossing a river in two dugout canoes, Reuters reported them as saying. Information Minister Julius Spencer told IRIN on Tuesday he was not aware of the incident.
Renewed fighting between a coalition of government forces and RUF rebels began in May shortly after the departure of the Nigerian-led West African peacekeeping force, ECOMOG.
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