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Terrorists in Sri Lanka renew attacks

 
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:19 pm    Post subject: Terrorists in Sri Lanka renew attacks Reply with quote

Note: "Tamil Tiger" is the romanticized term for local Sri Lankan terrorists.

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Tamil Tiger in suicide bombing



AP in Colombo

Thursday July 8, 2004

The Guardian



A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police station yesterday, killing four officers in the first such attack in the Sri Lankan capital since the rebels signed a ceasefire two years ago, police said.

Nine people were wounded and the bomber was killed in the blast, which occurred next to the prime minister's official residence.



Security forces were placed on high alert after the attack. Police said they had taken the female bomber in for questioning after learning she was plotting to assassinate Douglas Devananda, an agriculture minister and moderate Tamil leader, who opposes the rebels.



At the station, officers noticed something "bulging out of her dress" and called the bomb squad, but the woman detonated the explosives wrapped around her body before they arrived. Four police officers took the force of the blast and died, the spokesman said.



Five police and four civilians suffered shrapnel wounds, none life-threatening, said a hospital spokesman. After the blast, army and police set up roadblocks around the city.



The last major attack by the rebels near Colombo was in July 2001, when Sri Lanka's only international airport was attacked, killing 12 people.



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