By Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Fighter jets bombed Tamil Tiger training camps in Sri Lanka's far north early on Thursday and troops killed seven rebel fighters, the military said. Ten soldiers were wounded in two confrontations with the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the northwestern district of Mannar and neighbouring northern district of Vavuniya, where renewed civil war is now focused. "Troops killed six terrorists and 10 soldiers were wounded in a confrontation in North of Giant Tank in Mannar," said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara. He said troops also killed one rebel in a separate confrontation in Vavuniya and destroyed a rebel bunker. The air force said jets bombed two identified rebel training camps in Kokkuttoduvai in Tiger-held Mullaittivu district in the island's far north, where the rebels control a de-facto state the government has vowed to overrun. "Pilots confirmed the targets were accurate and the camps were badly destroyed. We have observed some movements. They must be evacuating casualties," said air force spokesman Group Captain Ajantha de Silva. The Tigers were not immediately available for comment on the fighting and there were no independent accounts of what had happened, how many people had been killed or what the jets hit. The government briefly banned reporting on troop deployments and proposed military operations and arms procurement on Wednesday, citing irresponsible reporting by a radio network it has since shut down after accusing it of airing a misleading broadcast. However the government then did a U-turn just hours later, revoking the censorship that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had ordered -- which carried a penalty of up to five years' hard labour -- saying he was now satisfied the media was acting "responsibly". An estimated 5,000 people have been killed since early last year amid near-daily land and sea clashes, ambushes and air strikes. The death toll since the conflict erupted in 1983 stands at about 70,000.
