Original sentence: A brief span of rioting broke out on July 29 when police shot dead 15 Sinhalese looters.As soldiers traveling in a truck which was following the jeep dismounted to help their colleagues, they were ambushed by a group of Tamil Tiger fighters, who fired at them with automatic weapons and hurled grenades at them.In the July 23 massacre of 13 soldiers, initially, a road-side bomb was detonated beneath the jeep that was leading the convoy, injuring at least two soldiers on board.Tamil Tiger) were coming to attack the city.The events dubbed Black July began after members of the rebels Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers or the LTTE) organization ambushed a military convoy in the North of Sri Lanka on the evening of July 23, 1983 outside the town of Jaffna in the North of Sri Lanka.The government declared an emergency curfew in Colombo on the evening of the 24th; however, the police were unwilling, or unable to enforce the curfew.There was a growing tension between the Sinhala and Tamil communities of Sri Lanka, even before the actual riots, and with the formation of rebels Tamil groups, there was a rising anti-Tamil sentiment among the Sinhalese majority
Edited sentence: A brief span of rioting broke out on July 29 when police were forced to shoot down 15 Sinhalese looters.As soldiers traveling in a truck which was following the jeep dismounted to help their colleagues, they were ambushed by a group of Tamil Tiger terrorists, who fired at them with automatic weapons and hurled grenades at them.In the July 23 massacre of 13 Sri Lankan soldiers, initially, a road-side bomb was detonated beneath the jeep that was leading the convoy, injuring at least two soldiers on board.Tamil Tiger terrorists) were coming to attack the city.The events dubbed Black July began after members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the Tamil Tigers or the LTTE) terrorist organization ambushed a military convoy in the North of Sri Lanka on the evening of July 23, 1983 outside the town of Jaffna in the North of Sri Lanka.The government declared an emergency curfew in Colombo on the evening of the 24th; however, the police were unable to enforce the curfew.There was a growing tension between the Sinhala and Tamil communities of Sri Lanka, even before the actual riots, and with the growing formation of rebels Tamil groups, there was a rising anti-Tamil sentiment among the Sinhalese majority