Bomb Blast in a bus in SriLanka kills 20
Posted by akpwld on February 2, 2008
A bomb blast that ripped through a bus in Srilanka, in the Dambulla town around 90 km ahead of Colombo killed 20 and injured 50 civilian people.The bus traveling to the north-centeral town of Anuradhapura was stopped in Dambulla when the blast occurred, Nanayakkara said.
Spokesmen for the rebels could not immediately be reached for comment. But the group, listed as a terror organisation by the US and European Union, routinely denies responsibility for such attacks.
Violence has intensified on this Indian Ocean island and more than 700 have been killed after the government withdrew from a cease-fire with Tamil rebels last month.
The bus attack came a day after government troops attacked rebel bunkers along the front lines in the island nation’s embattled north, triggering a battle that killed 10 guerrillas and two soldiers, the military said.
