According to a military spokesman, twenty eight Tamil Tiger rebels and eleven soldiers were killed on Wednesday in separate incidents in the north of Sri Lanka.

The fights, which occurred in the northwestern district of Mannar, northern district of Vavuniya and northern Jaffna peninsula, are the latest clashes of what is seem to be a renewed civil war.

Four of the eleven soldiers were killed by a pressure mine in Sinnasettikulam, Vavuniya 250 kilometers north of the capital. The accident occurred when the tractor they were traveling with hit the mine. Two soldiers were injured in the accident, DPA reports.

In another clash with the rebels in Nagarkovil, 380 kilometers north of the capital, other four soldiers were killed along with seven rebels.

According to the military spokesman, three soldiers were killed when a key road in Chinnacippikulam, Vavuniya, 240 kilometers north of the capital, was attacked by rebels.

Eleven rebels were killed in two separate incidents in Mullikulam, 270 kilometers north of the capital. Other ten rebels died in different incidents in the north of the island.

The Tamil Tiger rebels want to form an independent state in the north and east of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka government vowed that it will throw out the rebels from Mannar, after having evicted them from vast jungle areas that they had in control in the east, earlier this year.

Over 5,000 people died since 2006, when the fighting began between the rebels and the military, and almost 70,000 since 1982, when the war broke out.

According to military analysts, it’s hard to predict which side will win, and there are fears that the war could continue for many years ahead, Reuters reports.