COLOMBO, Feb. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A top Tamil Tiger woman leader and two other women rebels were seriously injured by gun fire in eastern Sri Lanka, police said Monday.

    The police at Thirukkovil, 420 km east of Colombo, said two gunmen who arrived on a motor cycle had blocked the three wheeler taxi in which the women were traveling and fired at them.

    Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack, it is believed to have been mastermind by the renegade faction of theLiberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

    The renegades led by Karuna who was a former LTTE's eastern commander was blamed for the murder on Feb.7 of the LTTE's easternpolitical leader E Kousalyan.

    The Tigers accused a paramilitary group working alongside government troops of carrying out the attack. Enditem