Second Lieutenant D.M.S.K. Dissanayake of Sri Lanka National Guard (SLNG), one of the victims who received severe injuries due to the explosion, was admitted to the National Hospital and being treated at Intensive Care Unit. Hospital sources said the victim succumbed to his injuries around 3.05 a.m this morning, January 04.

Earlier, Four people including two schoolchildren, a 15 year old student of Ananda College and a 16 year old student of Asoka Vidyalaya-Colombo, and a mother were killed when LTTE terrorists carried out a cowardly bomb blast targeting civilians and an army bus in Colombo on January 2.

The targeted army bus was carrying disabled and sick soldiers to the Army hospital at Narahenpita. LTTE terrorists triggered off the claymore bomb right opposite the Infant Jesus Roman Catholic church at Slave Island around 9.30.a.m, defence sources said.

According to the sources in the National Hospital Colombo, 24 people including 14 civilians and 10 soldiers suffered injuries in the incident. Four of the injured are in serious conditions, the sources added.