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Top Sri Lankan military officer killed
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a car carrying a top Sri Lankan general today, killing the third-highest ranking officer in the military and three other people.
The government blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels for the blast.
"The attack carries the hallmark of the LTTE," said chief government spokesman, Keheliya Rambukwella, using the initials of the insurgents' formal name, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
There was no comment from the rebels, but a pro-rebel website reported the attack without comment.
Four months of violence have brought Sri Lanka dangerously close to the brink of resuming full-scale civil war, and today's attack came just over two months after the Tigers' tried to kill Sri Lanka's top military commander in a suicide bombing in Colombo.
The car carrying Maj. Gen. Parami Kulatunga was taking the general to work in Colombo when it was hit by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle, said military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. The attack took place close to his home in Pannipitiya, nine miles south-east of Colombo's city centre.
Kulatunga was a hardened combat veteran who had led numerous operations against the rebels in the Sri Lanka's north-east, the main theatre of fighting during nearly two decades of full-scale war.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1097121.ece
"The attack carries the hallmark of the LTTE," said chief government spokesman, Keheliya Rambukwella, using the initials of the insurgents' formal name, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
There was no comment from the rebels, but a pro-rebel website reported the attack without comment.
Four months of violence have brought Sri Lanka dangerously close to the brink of resuming full-scale civil war, and today's attack came just over two months after the Tigers' tried to kill Sri Lanka's top military commander in a suicide bombing in Colombo.
The car carrying Maj. Gen. Parami Kulatunga was taking the general to work in Colombo when it was hit by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle, said military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. The attack took place close to his home in Pannipitiya, nine miles south-east of Colombo's city centre.
Kulatunga was a hardened combat veteran who had led numerous operations against the rebels in the Sri Lanka's north-east, the main theatre of fighting during nearly two decades of full-scale war.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1097121.ece
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