The Sri Lankan police said Friday a woman has been arrested for her involvement in the bus bomb blast in the central town of Dambulla on Feb. 2.
According to Kingsley Ekanayake, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in the Central Province, the woman was arrested while receiving treatment for blast injuries in the Dambulla hospital.
The blast ripped apart a passenger bus traveling from the central town of Kandy to the north central town of Anuradhapura, killing 20 civilians and injuring over 50.
Police said the woman, a Sinhalese, had lived in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) held Kilinochchi district for a long period of time and was married to a Tamil living there.
Her mother was also traveling with her in the ill-fated bus and they are suspected of having placed the bomb in the front part of the bus intending it to explode when the bus had reached Anuradhapura.
However, the bomb prematurely exploded at Dambulla, about 150 km northeast of Colombo.
The mother of the suspect who is warded at the hospital at Kurunegala will also be arrested, Ekanayake said.
LTTE rebels have been accused of carrying out another bomb the following day in the busy Fort railway station in Colombo.
Fourteen civilians along with the LTTE's female suicide bomber were killed in the bombing.
Source: Xinhua
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