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Seven dead, nearly 100 injured in Sri Lanka suicide blast
Feb 3, 2008 (AFP) – At least seven people were killed and 97 hurt Sunday when a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew herself up aboard a crowded train at the main rail station in Colombo, Sri Lankan officials said. The woman set off the explosives as a train from the suburb of Ambepussa pulled […]
Sri Lanka blast in Colombo suburb
Feb 03, 2008 (LBO) – An explosion ripped through a suburb of the Sri Lanka capital Colombo, residents and the military said, a day after a bus bombing killed 20 civillians in the central province of the island. Military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said they were investigating the blast in the suburb of Dehiwala to the […]
Sri Lanka bombings kill 10, more than 100 injured
Feb 3, 2008 (AFP) – A suicide bomber attacked a train at Colombo’s main rail station Sunday, killing at least 10 and injuring more than 100 others on the eve of Sri Lanka’s independence day celebrations, officials said. The government in January pulled out of a tattered peace pact with the rebels, who have been […]
Sri Lanka seeks public help to find bus bombers
Feb 3, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s police Sunday sought public help to track down two men believed to have planted a powerful bomb on a crowded bus that killed 20 passengers and wounded more than 60.The parcel bomb, left on an overhead rack of a long-distance bus in northern Sri Lanka, was set off […]
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 […]
Dirty Finance
Feb 02, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has tied up with Malaysia’s central bank to combat cross-border money laundering and terrorist finance, the Central Bank said. “Sri Lankan authorities should ensure that the FIU should be given operational independence to ensure freedom from undue influence or interference,” the IMF said. The […]
Sri Lanka Cricket says South Africa pull-out helped push it in to red
Feb 2, 2008 (AFP) – South Africa’s decision to quit a triangular one-day series in 2006 caused Sri Lanka’s hard-up cricketing body to lose 11 million dollars, a top official said here Saturday.Ranatunga said SLC was currently surviving on a six-million dollar bank overdraft, but India’s Test and one-day tour of Sri Lanka in July-August […]
Sri Lanka thrashed by Tasmania in one-dayer
HOBART, Australia, Feb 2, 2008 (AFP) – Opener Sanath Jayasuriya was hit in the jaw as Sri Lanka slumped to a disappointing defeat here Saturday in their final warm-up match before the triangular series against India and Australia.The Sri Lankans beat the Prime Minister’s XI comfortably on Wednesday in Canberra, but Tasmania thrashed them by […]
Sri Lankan president urges calm after bus blast
Feb 2, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse blamed Tamil Tiger guerrillas for a bomb Saturday on a bus that killed at least 20 people, urging citizens not to be provoked by the rebels “brutality.” The parcel bomb went off as the crowded bus, carrying many Buddhist pilgrims belonging to the ethnic Sinhalese […]
Sri Lanka bus bombing kills 20
Feb 2, 2008 (AFP) – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful bomb on a crowded bus in north-central Sri Lanka Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding another 61, the military and hospital sources said.The Tamil Tigers have been fighting for an independent Tamil homeland in the majority Sinhalese nation since 1972 […]