Tamil Suicide Bomber Attacks Sri Lanka Bus
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Courtesy Of: Reuters
Sat Jan 6, 2007 9:01am ET
Sat Jan 6, 2007 9:01am ET
By Buddhika Weerasinghe
PERALIYA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew up a bus in Sri Lanka's south coast resort area on Saturday, killing herself and 10 passengers and wounding 50, police said of the second bus attack in as many days.
...Analysts fear rebel attacks, which have largely been confined to military and political targets during a new episode in the island's two-decade civil war, may now increasingly target civilians as in earlier stages of a conflict that has killed more than 67,000 people since 1983.
The blast blew a hole in the back of the bus, which sat on the verge of the island's main road along the south coast, amid tsunami-damaged homes and rudimentary shelters. Glass from the broken bus windows was strewn on the ground.
Eleven people were killed in the bombing and 50 others were wounded, officials said.
"We think it was a Tiger suicide bomber," Chief Inspector of Police H.M. Edrisuriya told Reuters. "We have found only a portion of an unidentified woman, who we think was the bomber."
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who say they are fighting for an independent state for minority Tamils in the north and east, denied they were behind the bus attacks.
(Additional reporting by Simon Gardner and Ranga Sirilal in Colombo)
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