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| Nine killed, 50 wounded in Sri Lanka market blast |
| 2006-04-12 |
| COLOMBO - Nine people were killed and at least 50 injured in a bomb blast at a vegetable market in Sri Lanka’s restive northeastern port town of Trincomalee Wednesday, police and doctors said. The device planted on a bicycle damaged several shops ahead of the traditional Sinhalese and Tamil New Year festivals on Thursday and Friday. “It was a bomb placed on a bicycle,” a local police official told AFP. “First we thought it was a bomb thrown at the market, but now it is established that it was rigged up on a cycle.” Shortly after the blast, local mobs attacked several shops in the market and there were clashes in the multi-ethnic area, police said. An indefinite curfew was imposed on the area to bring the situation under control. Hospital sources said nine people had been killed and at least 50 injured people were admitted to the main hospital. |
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