COLOMBO, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's Air Force carried out more air raids on Tamil Tiger training camps in the north on Wednesday amid the rebels' rejection of a government offer to send food convoys through the closed A9 highway, said defense officials.     

    Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, the military spokesman said that the Air Force had bombed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) camps in Mannar, 312 km north of here.

    "Air Force Kfir jets simultaneously bombed two LTTE sea tiger bases at Wedithalathivu west of Mannar and Kallaru south of Mannar around 9:30 a.m. (0400 GMT)," said the Media Center for National Security in a short statement.

    There was no immediate response from the LTTE rebels about the bombing.

    The air raids came for the second day in succession. On Tuesday the Air Force carried out similar air raids in Mannar and Pooneryn in the north.

    The LTTE said that one of the bombs on Tuesday had fallen on a school causing damages and a hospital had also been damaged.

    The attacks continue in the northern and eastern regions despite international pleas on both sides to get back to the negotiating table.

    A round of face to face talks arranged by the Norwegian facilitators collapsed late last month in Geneva over the dispute involving the closed A9 highway.

    The rebels accuse the government of depriving the people of the northern Jaffna peninsula of essential food with the closure of the A9 highway.

    The highway, the major land road between the Jaffna peninsula and the south of the island came to be shut following the LTTE attack on the government troops at Muhamalai's forward defense lines in Jaffna in mid-August.

    The government says the road will not be opened until the rebels stopped attacks on troops in Jaffna.

    The government on Sunday offered to send a one-shot food convoy through the A9 highway in order to meet the scarcities of food in Jaffna.

    Keheliya Rambukwella, the government's defense spokesman said the rebels had informed the government that they were not in agreement with the offer.