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...COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: The death toll has reached 73 and 1,000 remain hospitalized after the truck bombing Wednesday that decimated Sri Lanka's central business district. Soldiers cordoned off the area as bulldozers cleared out the rubble and rescuers searched for survivors. TIME's Kendall Hopman reports from Colombo: "The rescue efforts were made very difficult by the clouds of smoke and a weak fire hydrant system. There wasn't enough water pressure to reach the higher floors in some of the buildings. The rubble also made reaching the injured difficult. The people on the street are in shock...
...COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: A truck packed with explosives drove into Sri Lanka's central bank today, killing at least 53 people and wounding 1,400. Sri Lankan authorities are blaming Tamil Tiger rebels for the explosion, which caused the bank and several other buildings to burst into flames. The fires blazed for most of the day, making rescue attempts difficult. If it was a rebel attack, it was one of the worst in their 12-year campaign for an independent homeland. Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the fighting. The worst attack occurred in October 1994, when...
...suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives outside a government building in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, killing 22 people and wounding 50 others. The police said the blast was set off by a Tamil separatist fighting for a homeland in the northeast of the country...
...should have called for an independent prosecutor. Lacey and his staff have labeled their Teamsters report "extensive," but there were numerous leads unpursued and witnesses not interviewed. For example, Ron Carey's brother Carlisle was not questioned; in 1972 he married the widow of an alleged associate of the Colombo family...
...suspected suicide bomber in Sri Lanka killed at least 55 people, including the leading opposition candidate for President, at a political rally in the outskirts of the capital, Colombo. Gamini Dissanayake, head of the United National Party, was killed along with several other party leaders; more than 200 people were injured. Police said the attack was similar to suicide bombings carried out by ethnic Tamil separatists...