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| Sri Lankan soldiers and
police inspect the site of a car bomb explosion in Colombo August 8, 2006.
A car bomb exploded in Colombo on Tuesday, killing two people, including a
three-year-old boy, as fighting continued in Sri Lanka's northeast and the
government vowed to probe the execution-style deaths of 15 aid staff.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
COLOMBO, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb blast in the
Sri Lanka's capital Colombo killed two people on Tuesday, police said.
The victims, a woman and a child, were killed as the
suspected Tamil Tiger bomb attack directed at the vehicle of a rival group
senior member took place at the south Colombo's Milagiriya junction at 2.50 p.m.
local time (0940 GMT), police said.
Seven others were injured and admitted to the Colombo
National Hospital. The attack was suspected to be targeted at S Sivadasan, a
fellow Tamil and a senior adviser to the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP),
which is bitterly opposed to the Tiger rebels.
The EPDP leader Douglas Devananda, who himself has
survived several Tamil Tiger assassination attempts, is a minister in the
government of President Mahinda Rajapakse.
The EPDP sources said Sivadasan was injured and is
among the injured admitted to the hospital. "It looks as if the bomb was fixed
to the van," a policeman who visited the explosion site immediately after the
blast said on condition of anonymity.
The explosion in the capital came after Monday's
claymore mine attack on a senior police officer in Kandy, the second largest
city in the country. Violence since end of 2005 has seriously endangered the
Norwegian effort to bring peace back through the process of direct negotiations.
More than 64,000 people have been killed in the island's separatist armed conflict since the Tamil Tiger rebels launched its armed campaign to carve out a separate homeland for the minority Tamil community in the north and eastern provinces. Enditem
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