Exhuming bodies of aid workers killed last September

Seventeen of its employees were killed in the north-eastern town of Muttur in Trincomalee in September.

The local staff were found dead after a fierce battle in the town between government forces and Tamil separatists.

Action against Hunger says they have decided to resume their work because the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka is deteriorating.

They will open a base in the eastern district of Batticaloa.

Batticaloa is one of the areas most affected by the conflict and home to some seventy-five-thousand displaced people.

It is still unclear who killed the agency's employees.