COLOMBO - A powerful Claymore mine exploded at a government office in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, killing two constables, police said. Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels planted the bomb on a motorcycle that was parked at the district secretariat in the town of Vavuniya, 260 kilometres (160 miles) north of Colombo, police said.“An investigation is underway to find out how the motor cycle was taken into the car park of the building without being checked,” a police official in Vavuniya said by telephone.
The attack came despite tight security in the region where several similar bomb attacks have recently taken place against police and security forces.