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| Sri Lanka |
| Sri Lanka bus blast kills five |
| 2007-04-25 |
| Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a bomb in northern Sri Lanka, killing five bus passengers and wounding another 33, defence officials said Tuesday. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) set off the blast in the district of Vavuniya, 250 kilometres north of Colombo just before midnight on Monday, the ministry said. Military officials said the blast was caused by a mine planted by the side of the road to target the vehicle. It came two hours ahead of a rebel air attack against government troops in the Jaffna peninsula, further north of Vavuniya, officials said. The rebels said they staged the air attack using two of their light aircraft. Earlier this month the Tigers were blamed for a blast that hit another bus in the same area of Vavuniya, killing eight passengers and wounding 25. That attack came five days after a bomb exploded inside a bus in the east of the island, killing 17 people and wounding 25. |
| Posted by:Fred |