Internally displaced Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils wait at a makeshift hospital in Mullivaikal, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, May 13, 2009. (AP Photo)Thousands Cross Lagoon To Flee Sri Lanka Fighting -- Yahoo News/Reuters
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Thousands of Sri Lankans under fire waded across a lagoon to escape the island's war zone, where the military has surrounded Tamil Tiger rebels for the final battle in a quarter-century conflict.
The military said aerial surveillance footage confirmed the exodus of around 5,000 people from a tiny, sandy coastal strip, where the United States and others say the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are holding thousands by force.
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