A woman suicide bomber who set off a blast that killed herself and four policemen in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo may have been wearing a "bra bomb", police said Tuesday. The device exploded as the attacker, who appeared to be in her late 20s, was being searched by two women constables at a police station after being detained by guards of a government minister. The two constables who escaped with injuries have said the woman had shown them her bare midriff to indicate she was not wearing an explosives-filled jacket usually worn by suicide bombers, inspector Palitha Siriwardena said. "This points to the possibility that she was wearing a bra that had explosives in it," said Siriwardena, who is chief inspector of the Kollupitiya police station where the blast occurred. It would be the first case of a bra bomb encountered by police in Sri Lanka. Colombo's police chief Sirisena Herath said the remains of the woman indicated the explosives were around her chest and pointed to her having worn a bra bomb, although the forensic report was yet to be finalised.
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"The body was basically in two parts," Herath told AFP. "The explosives had been around the chest and that is why (from) waist down was intact. One arm was blown away, but the head was intact." Police said they were for the time being going on the basis that it was a bra bomb that could have been wired to go off when tampered with.
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Usually suicide bomb jackets have a manual detonating device that would come down almost to waist level. No such detonating device was found on the woman who carried out the bombing on Wednesday, police said. Tiger rebels denied involvement in the suicide bombing which the government said was intended for Hindu Religious Affairs Minister Douglas Devananda, who is a staunch opponent of the Tamil Tigers. The United States and other diplomats here said despite the denials, the attack bore the hallmarks of the Tamil Tigers who earlier this month commemorated 241 suicide bombers who perished since 1987.
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