Public should be vigilant to thwart LTTE attacks on civilians
The intense media campaigns by defence
authorities and also by the media to keep the public on red alert
against desperate Tiger attacks seems to be futile with the bomb
blast in Dambulla yesterday although there are satisfactory security
measures taken in Colombo in preparation for the 60th Independence
Day celebrations.
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Two persons suspected in Dambulla bus blast
Two persons who boarded the ill-fated bus at
Matale and had then got off at Naulla on Saturday morning are
suspected of having planted the powerful bomb that killed sixteen
women and two men and injured around 51 persons at the Dambulla bus
stand, Senior DIG N. Illangakoon, the Police Media spokesmen told a
hastily summoned media briefing at the Media Centre at Kollupitiya.
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Major calamity averted in Colombo
A major calamity was averted in Colombo when a
person carrying a deadly suicide jacket was arrested by a joint
army-police patrol on a tip off yesterday, at Mabola, Wattala,
Police Media Spokesman DIG. N. Illangakoon told a press briefing at
the Media Centre in Colombo.
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