Sri Lanka's military announced on Friday that in the latest clashes throughout the country its troops killed at least 35 Tamil Tiger fighters.

The statement said that government troops fought the rebels in the northern district of Vavuniya on Thursday killing 25 rebels. Ten other rebels were gunned down on the Jaffna peninsula, in Vavuniya and in Welioya town on Friday.

One wounded soldier was the only casualty of the Sri Lankan military. The soldier was wounded by a mine blast.

However, the Tamil Tiger rebels said that they have not lost any fighters in Jaffa showing that both sides tend to overstate enemy losses and play down their own amid a parallel propaganda war.

Also on Friday, the Sri Lankan air force informed that it dropped bombs on a rebel position in the north, but there were no details regarding the casualties or the damage inflicted.

"Air Force jets pounded a meeting place of LTTE terrorists in Puthukudiyirippu in Mullativu," said Air Force spokesman Wing Commander Priyantha Weerasinghe.

The email statement from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) informed that the rebels succeeded in stopping military infiltration attempts in the Jaffna peninsula on both Thursday and Friday.

"One SLAF (Sri Lanka Armed Forces) personnel was killed and at least five others sustained injuries... The LTTE front liners suffered no casualties," said Tiger military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan.

The conflict between the Sri Lanka's forces and the LTTE has started 24 years ago and over this period there were more than 70,000 people killed in the clashes. Two attempts of reaching peace were made, but after the last of them made during the peace-talks held in Geneva a year ago, the fighting has intensified.

The LTTE has an estimated 12,000-member land force and a 4,000-strong naval unit. It currently controls the northern provinces of Sri Lanka.