http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/sri.lanka.blast/index.html?section=cnn_latest
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Eight people were killed and 90 wounded when a three-wheel scooter taxi loaded with explosives rammed a bus in Sri Lanka's capital, police and army sources said.
Most victims are members of a police riot squad that was on duty along the road where the explosion happened, the sources said.
As this is in the HSZ, less civilian casualities.
The bus was parked along Colombo's Lotus Road, less than 100 meters (110 yards) from the presidential secretariat, the sources said.
The squad was part of security preparations for the swearing-in of the chief minister for the Eastern Provisional Council. |