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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 08:13 AM
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Sri Lanka bombing kills 12; dozens hurt
Source: AP

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said. Dozens were wounded.

Officials blamed the bombing, the second this year resulting in the death of a senior government official, on Tamil Tiger rebels.

Runners and onlookers gathered at the starting line of the marathon in Weliweriya, 12 miles from Colombo, part of the national celebration of the upcoming Sinhalese New Year.

Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, the minister of highways and the ruling party's chief whip, approached the starting line with a flag he planned to wave to start the race when the bomb exploded, witnesses said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_re_as/sri_lanka_violence;_ylt=AhdrfjKbET3d5XvhKAmmjVis0NUE
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 08:17 AM
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1. Suicide bomber kills senior Sri Lanka minister at marathon
COLOMBO (AFP) - A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka's highways minister as he opened a marathon Sunday in an attack that left 11 others dead and nearly 100 wounded, police and officials said.

Senior minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, 55, was killed in the town of Weliveriya outside of the capital when the blast ripped through the large gathering at the event, police said.

The minister had walked up to the starting line where more than 100 athletes had lined up and at the count down a huge blast shattered the occasion.

"Ready, on your marks, steady...," the official had said over the public address system, moments before the huge explosion.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080406/wl_asia_afp/srilankaunrestblast_080406111123
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