Thirty two (32) persons were killed and another 252 were wounded, when a powerful bomb in a private bus was detonated near the Maradana Junction on the Maradana Road, around 12.40 pm, 05, March 1998, police said. The overhead bridge at Maradana, connecting T.B. Jayah Mawatha (Darley Road), with Panchikawatte, was also damaged in the explosion. Several shops in an around the area were also damaged.
EXTENSIVE damage has been caused to the Dalada Maligawa building, due to a heavy explosion which took place at 6.10 am Sunday opposite the main entrance to the Dalada Maligawa causing death of eight (8) persons and injuring about 25 others.
TERRORISTS exploded a powerful truck bomb in the car park of Galadari Hotel, Fort causing extensive damage to several buildings and part of the Secretariat building in the Fort. According to police the canter lorry was transporting `rice' to Galadari Hotel. Following the explosion 12 persons were killed and 113 injured.
Two powerful bombs ripped through the Aluthgama-bound evening slow train at the Dehiwala railway station around 6.10 p.m. on Wednesday, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400, 60 of them seriously.
Railway workers now firmly believe that the bombs were loaded at the Fort Station and the perpetrators alighted at the Wellawatte Station.
The head of the women suicide bomber who was decapitated in Thursday's attack on a Minister's convoy at Stanley Road, Jaffna, in which nearly 25 were killed and 50 injured. Her head and parts of her torso were brought to the JMO s office in Colombo. Her identity has not yet been established.
Eight members of the same family were among the 14 civilians, including women and children who were hacked to death by over 200 tigers who stormed a Sinhala village 16 miles off Puttalam on Monday midnight. The Tigers also burnt down several houses. The picture shows some of the charred bodies and a house torched by the Tigers..
Fourteen civilians and three Security Forces personnel were killed and 59 persons were injured on Sunday morning when two Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bombers blew themselves up during an abortive attack on the Army Headquarters complex in Colombo.
Demonstrators carrying anti-LTTE placards protest in London as a memorandum calling for the closure of the LTTE office in London is handed over to an official at No. 10 Downing Street.
