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13:19, January 16, 2008 |
At least 23 people were killed and 67 others injured when a civilian bus was hit by an explosion in Sri Lanka 's southern Monaragala district Wednesday morning, said the military.
Officials from the Media Center for National Security said the incident happened at about 7:45 a.m. (0215 GMT) in Okkampitiya, about 240 km southeast of Colombo, adding that many of the casualties were school children.
The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been blamed for the explosion by the government.
The blast occurred as the government's decision to withdraw from the ceasefire agreement with the LTTE would take effect on Wednesday.
Claiming discrimination at the hands of the Sinhala majority, the LTTE has been fighting the government since the mid-1980s to establish a separate homeland for the minority Tamils in the north and east.
Source:Xinhua
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