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Tue 08 Aug 2001Rebel raid on Sri Lankan police station kills 17At least 17 people were killed and 25 others wounded when Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas attacked a police station in the east of the country this morning."Clearing operations are still continuing, and we expect the death toll to rise," said military spokesman Brig Sanath Karunaratne.