COLOMBO, Jan. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Three explosions hit the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo late on Tuesday with no reports of casualties or property damage, said the police.

    The police said the three explosions occurred in different parts of the city at about 8:20 p.m. local time (1420 GMT) and the investigation was still undergone.

    The explosion came shortly after a meeting between Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse and the visiting Norwegian Minister for International Development, Erik Solheim.

    Government sources said that Rajapakse had reassured Solheim his government's commitment to resume peace negotiations.

    The Norwegian peace envoy is scheduled to visit the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels held Kilinochchi on Wednesday.

    He is to meet with the reclusive LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran to discuss the future of the stalled peace negotiations.

    Early on Tuesday, two people were killed in the country's turbulent Eastern Province.

    A provincial reporter S.S. Rajan attached to a pro-Tamil Tiger newspaper Sudar Oli, a Tamil daily published from Colombo, was gunned down at around 7:45 a.m. local time (0145 GMT) in the eastern port town of Trincomalee.

    Elsewhere in the Eastern Province, a local council office employee was gunned down by an unidentified gunman at Muttur, the police said.

    More than 80 soldiers of government forces have died in several claymore mine attacks since December 2005 carried out by the LTTE rebels seriously endangering the Norwegian backed cease-fire. Enditem