Bus blast kills 15 in Sri Lanka

  • 12/15/2022
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Jan 6, SPA -- A bomb tore through a passenger bus in southern Sri Lanka on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens more, police said. Police said they believe a suicide bomber triggered theblast in Meetiyagoda, some 95 kilometers (59 miles) southof the capital, Colombo. «There is a female body inside the bus and looking at the damage the blast has caused around her, we suspect that she could have been a suicide bomber,» said Upul Ariyaratne, a senior police official. He said there were about 65 passengers inside the bus at the time of the blast and about 40 had been admitted tohospital, the Associated Press reported. Saturday's blast came a day after six people died in asimilar bus blast near the capital. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/416154

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