SRI LANKA: AT LEAST TWO KILLED AND SEVEN WOUNDED IN LATEST ATTACK BY SUICIDE BOMBER IN CAPITAL COLOMBO

Record ID: 355271

  • Title: SRI LANKA: AT LEAST TWO KILLED AND SEVEN WOUNDED IN LATEST ATTACK BY SUICIDE BOMBER IN CAPITAL COLOMBO
  • Date: 14th June 2000
  • Summary: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (JUNE 14, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV STREET SCENES WITH POLICE (2 SHOTS) 0.21 2. SLV POLICE CORDON AROUND BLAST SITE 0.27 3. SLV MOTOR CYCLE LYING ON THE ROAD 0.34 4. SV (SOUNDBITE) (Singhalese) ROHAN JAYAKODY, EYEWITNESS SAYING: "I heard the explosion, I dropped my bike and then ran away. Then I turned back and c
  • Embargoed: 29th June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: COLOMBO, SRI LANKA
  • Country: Sri Lanka
  • Reuters ID: LVABAUU4VTSWDKWBSEIF25JNRRKO
  • Story Text: At least two people have been killed and seven wounded
    in the latest attack by a suicide bomber in the Capital
    Colombo.



    Police and hospital officials have said that at least
    two civilians were killed and seven wounded in the Sri Lanka
    attack on Wednesday (June 14). The wounded included air force
    personnel.

    The suicide bomber carried out the attack in a suburb of
    Sri Lanka's capital Colombo and one eyewitness, Rohan Jayakodi
    who was riding his bicycle as the explosion went off said, "I
    heard the explosion, I dropped my bike and then ran away. Then
    I turned back and came to the scene of the explosion. I saw a
    man and a woman lying on the road. The man looked very
    injured. Then I saw a motorcycle against the airforce bus".

    Police said the bomber had been targeting an air force
    vehicle traveling in the city's Wattala district.

    The body of the bomber and shattered glass was strewn
    across he blast site.

    Police cordoned off the area and the wounded, who included
    air force personnel who were on their way in to the city
    centre, had been taken to hospital.

    The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been
    fighting for a separate homeland for minority Tamils in Sri
    Lanka's north and east since 1983.

    The rebels have launched frequent deadly bomb attacks in
    the capital and elsewhere.

    Last Wednesday (June 7), 23 people, including a government
    minister, were killed by a LTTE suicide bomber in the capital.


    (jd)

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