Vigilant civilians avert major disaster; terror bomb blast in Mount
Lavinia
LTTE terrorists have exploded a bomb inside a public
transport bus in Mount Lavinia, in the South of Colombo city around
10.55, this morning targeting innocent civilians. According to the
available information, the bomb has been exploded in a privately owned
bus that was plying from Moratuwa to Colombo. Due to the explosion 18
people including 10 males, 7 females and one baby have suffered minor
injures. The bus and a motorbike parked nearby have been destroyed.
However, the terrorists' beastly intention to commit
carnage against civilians has foiled due to the vigilance of the
civilians themselves. According to the defence.lk reporter at the scene,
one of the passengers having noticed a suspicious parcel has informed
the driver and the conductor of the bus.
The conductor has alarmed the passengers and asked
them to vacate the bus as soon as possible. At the same time, the driver
of the bus has taken the bus to a safe distance from the civilians and
informed the police, he said. Few minutes after driver got down from the
bus, the bomb has gone off, he added.
According to our sources, unless for the responsible
behaviour shown by the bus conductor, the driver and the passenger who
alarmed them; a large number of civilians would have been killed.
Earlier this month, a navy petty officer saved large
number of civilian lives by promptly defusing a similar parcel bomb
placed by LTTE terrorists at the Anuradhapura weekly fair.
LTTE is a ruthless terrorist outfit that has been
fighting for a mono ethnic, separate homeland for the Tamils living in
Sri Lanka since 1983. The terrorists have killed tens thousands of
innocent civilians in similar bus bombings, ethnic cleansing raids,
suicide bomb attacks, etc during this period. Also, the outfit has been
in the UN list of shame for using child soldiers for years and continue
with its shameful practice by forcibly recruiting children at mass scale
in the terror dominated Wanni region.
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