4.2.2008
LTTE terrorists have carried out a
cowardly claymore blast targeting a civilian bus at Ethawatunuwewa
around 3.50, this evening. According to the defence sources
in the area, the terrorists have targeted a state owned
public transport bus that was playing from Anudradhapura
to Janakapura at a location close to "Kobbakaduwa Junction".
13
civilians have been killed and 16 others including children
injured in the explosion. According to the hospital sources
the victims have been initially taken to Padaviya hospital.
Six out of them, including two children have been transferred
to the Anuradhapura Hospital. Two among the dead are women,
the sources added.
LTTE
is a ruthless terrorist outfit fighting for a mono ethnic
separate homeland for the Tamils living in Sri Lanka since
1983. Led by its psychopathic leader, V.Prabhakaran, the
outfit routinely carryout civilian massacres in pursuit
of its utopian state of Tamil Eelam. LTTE is infamous for
attacking soft target such as infants, schoolchildren, pregnant
women, elderly persons etc in its regular genocides. Yesterday,
it massacred six students of a school base ball team when
one of its brainwashed suicide bomber exploded herself at
the Colombo railway station.
Courtesy
- Sri Lanka Defence
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