23.02.2008
LTTE terrorists have exploded a bomb inside a public transport
bus in Mount Lavinia, in the South of Colombo city around
10.55, this morning targeting innocent civilians. According
to the available information, the bomb has been exploded
in a privately owned bus that was plying from Moratuwa
to Colombo. Due to the explosion 18 people including 10
males, 7 females and one baby have suffered minor injures.
The bus and a motorbike parked nearby have been destroyed.
However, the terrorists' beastly intention to commit carnage
against civilians has foiled due to the vigilance of the
civilians themselves. According to the defence.lk reporter
at the scene, one of the passengers having noticed a suspicious
parcel has informed the driver and the conductor of the
bus.
The
conductor has alarmed the passengers and asked them to vacate
the bus as soon as possible. At the same time, the driver
of the bus has taken the bus to a safe distance from the
civilians and informed the police, he said. Few minutes
after driver got down from the bus, the bomb has gone off,
he added.
According
to our sources, unless for the responsible behaviour shown
by the bus conductor, the driver and the passenger who alarmed
them; a large number of civilians would have been killed.
Earlier
this month, a navy petty officer saved large number of civilian
lives by promptly defusing a similar parcel bomb placed
by LTTE terrorists at the Anuradhapura weekly fair.
LTTE
is a ruthless terrorist outfit that has been fighting for
a mono ethnic, separate homeland for the Tamils living in
Sri Lanka since 1983. The terrorists have killed tens thousands
of innocent civilians in similar bus bombings, ethnic cleansing
raids, suicide bomb attacks, etc during this period. Also,
the outfit has been in the UN list of shame for using child
soldiers for years and continue with its shameful practice
by forcibly recruiting children at mass scale in the terror
dominated Wanni region.
Courtesy
- Sri Lanka Defence
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