Death toll rises to five in LTTE bomb blast -Slave Island
Death toll of the Slave Island bomb blast on January
02 has risen to five as an army personnel succumbed to injuries while
being treated at the National Hospital Colombo this morning, January 04.
Second Lieutenant D.M.S.K. Dissanayake of Sri Lanka
National Guard (SLNG), one of the victims who received severe injuries
due to the explosion, was admitted to the National Hospital and being
treated at Intensive Care Unit. Hospital sources said the victim
succumbed to his injuries around 3.05 a.m this morning, January 04.
Earlier, Four people including two schoolchildren, a
15 year old student of Ananda College and a 16 year old student of Asoka
Vidyalaya-Colombo, and a mother were killed when LTTE terrorists carried
out a cowardly bomb blast targeting civilians and an army bus in Colombo
on January 2.
The targeted army bus was carrying disabled and sick
soldiers to the Army hospital at Narahenpita. LTTE terrorists triggered
off the claymore bomb right opposite the Infant Jesus Roman Catholic
church at Slave Island around 9.30.a.m, defence sources said.
According to the sources in the National Hospital
Colombo, 24 people including 14 civilians and 10 soldiers suffered
injuries in the incident. Four of the injured are in serious conditions,
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