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COLOMBO, Wednesday, (AFP) - A mother and her daughter were killed in an explosion triggered by a grenade the child was playing with at a village in northern Sri Lanka, police said.

The seven-year-old girl had been playing with the explosive device picked up probably from the neighbourhood of the village of Shekkadipillau in the district of Vavuniya, a police official in the area said by telephone. He said two other people were injured in the blast.

It came as thousands of Tamils attended a mass rally in the town of Vavuniya, 260 kilometres (160 miles) north of here, in support of Tamil Tiger rebels.

However, the blast was unrelated to the rally, military and police officials said.

Unexploded ordnance and mines have been causing casualties among refugees returning to their homes in the embattled northern and eastern regions since Tigers and the government entered into a truce in February last year.

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