COLOMBO: A pre-dawn explosion on a bus in Sri Lanka on Wednesday injured 19 other people, together with 12 defence workforce, the army said, rekindling scenes of the island country's brutal civil struggle in opposition to the LTTE.
The reason behind the explosion that took place round 5.45 am was now not in an instant identified, amid suspicion that any individual was sporting a grenade on the bus that went off.
"Among the passengers were seven Army personnel and five Air Force personnel. The condition of two Army personnel is reportedly critical," the Army said in a remark.
The injured which integrated seven civilians were hospitalised.
"The Army denies any terrorist involvement in the incident. Police investigations are in progress," it said.
The bus had began from the northern peninsula of Jaffna for the army base the town of Diyathalawa. The explosion passed off at Kahagolla area in Diyathalawa, military spokesman Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said.
However, Daily Mirror newspaper quoting the spokesman said "the explosion cannot be ruled out as an act of terrorism as of yet. Nevertheless, a highly explosive substance inside the bus may have caused the explosion. The cause can be ruled out after the government analyst inspects the scene."
Atapattu said the police and the army are engaging in separate investigations.
Sri Lanka noticed a brutal civil struggle involving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and had witnessed massive scale violence right through the 30-year-long separatist motion that claimed over 100,000 lives.
Hundreds of security workforce had been additionally killed in the battle till 2009, when the LTTE was after all beaten by way of the Lankan military with the demise of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran.
There were hardly any reports of attacks on the military ever since.
The reason behind the explosion that took place round 5.45 am was now not in an instant identified, amid suspicion that any individual was sporting a grenade on the bus that went off.
"Among the passengers were seven Army personnel and five Air Force personnel. The condition of two Army personnel is reportedly critical," the Army said in a remark.
The injured which integrated seven civilians were hospitalised.
"The Army denies any terrorist involvement in the incident. Police investigations are in progress," it said.
The bus had began from the northern peninsula of Jaffna for the army base the town of Diyathalawa. The explosion passed off at Kahagolla area in Diyathalawa, military spokesman Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said.
However, Daily Mirror newspaper quoting the spokesman said "the explosion cannot be ruled out as an act of terrorism as of yet. Nevertheless, a highly explosive substance inside the bus may have caused the explosion. The cause can be ruled out after the government analyst inspects the scene."
Atapattu said the police and the army are engaging in separate investigations.
Sri Lanka noticed a brutal civil struggle involving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and had witnessed massive scale violence right through the 30-year-long separatist motion that claimed over 100,000 lives.
Hundreds of security workforce had been additionally killed in the battle till 2009, when the LTTE was after all beaten by way of the Lankan military with the demise of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran.
There were hardly any reports of attacks on the military ever since.
12 military men among 19 injured in Sri Lanka bus explosion
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