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Sri Lanka |
Sri Lanka army chief back in office after failed assassination bid |
2006-07-28 |
![]() A woman suicide squad member of the LTTE jumped at Fonseka's motorcade and blew herself up as the Sri Lankan military commander was being driven to lunch inside the tightly guarded Army headquarters here. At least 11 people were killed while 25 others including the Army Commander were injured in the blast. Samarasinghe said Fonseka had returned to the island Tuesday afternoon having received urgent medical treatment in Singapore. Fonseka, a battle hardened soldier was a key member of the island's military in the height of the separatist war with the LTTE rebels where more than 64,000 people have been killed since the conflict escalated in the mid 1980s. |
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