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.

   

Three explosions hit the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo at about 8:20 p.m. local time on Tuesday with no reports of casualties or property damage.(Xinhua Photo)

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

    All explosions happening simultaneously were bombs of low intensity, police sources said, adding that the investigation was still undergone.

    The police however was not able to confirm another two explosions in suburbs of the capital at the moment.

    They happened on the eve of a visit to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held territory in the north by the Norwegian special peace envoy the minister of International development Erik Solheim.

    He is on a four-day visit to the island in his fresh attempt to help the government and the Tamil rebels kick start the stalled peace process.

    Solheim on Wednesday will meet the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran in what is promised to be a crucial meeting for the future of resolution of the ethnic separatist armed conflict.

    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 severalclaymore mine attacks since December 2005 carried out by the LTTE rebels seriously endangering the Norwegian backed cease-fire. Enditem