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28 killed in Sri Lanka blast
B. Muralidhar Reddy
COLOMBO: At least 28 people, including 20 soldiers and eight civilians getting out of the war zone were killed on Monday as a suspected LTTE woman suicide bomber blew herself up at a military check point meant to screen the fleeing citizens north of Visuamadu in Mullathivu district.
The suicide bomber arrived at the check point along with civilians at the internally displaced rescue centre and triggered the bomb strapped on her when a soldier approached her for screening.
A video clip of the carnage released by the military shows the severed head of the suicide bomber. Several bodies including a small boy lay scattered and soldiers were seen carrying them into a nearby truck.
At least 24 army personnel and 40 civilians were injured. The condition of some of the injured is stated to be critical.
The incident is bound to have an impact on the civilians wanting to escape from the fast shrinking territory under the LTTE control.
The blast occurred at a juncture when slowly but steadily the numbers of trapped civilians leaving the battle zone was picking up.
Condemning the incident, the UN called upon the LTTE to separate “its forces from civilians under its control”. Sri Lanka charged that the LTTE had deliberately targeted the fleeing civilians as a reprisal for their refusal to take up arms against the military.
There was no word from the LTTE.
The last update of the LTTE Peace Secretariat website was on January 23. The pro-LTTE TamilNet said, “What exactly happened is difficult to be asserted since no independent source is available in the war frontier to verify the claims or the sequence of the tragedy”.
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