Bus Blast

Feb 02, 2008 (LBO) -- An explosion at a bus station in north-central Sri Lanka Saturday killed at least 13 people and wounded 20, police said. The Tigers have been blamed for blasting a bus in southern Sri Lanka on the same day that the ceasefire expired.

A spate of farmer killings in the southern Moneragala district have also been blamed on the group.

The bomb went off in a bus in Dambulla, in the north-central province of the island, at around 7.00 am, the defence ministry said.



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The town is located on the main highway going to the north of the island, where the Tamil Tigers are fighting for a separate state.

The bus was traveling to the north-central town of Anuradhapura from Kandy in the central hills.

The A-9 highway linking the northern Jaffna peninsular through the Tiger-held Wanni areas starts from Kandy.

Civillian killings in Sri Lanka's internal conflict have intensified after the government pulled out of a ceasefire with the Tamil Tigers in January.


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