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Sri Lanka bus bomb near capital colombo kills five |
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 A blast has ripped through a bus in western Sri Lanka, killing at least five people and wounding 30, as fighting raged in the north and east of the island.About 80 people were aboard the bus when the blast occurred in the town of Nittambuwa, 36 km north of Colombo, during evening rush hour on Friday.
The traffic police said the blast forced the temporary closure of the main road between the capital and the central provincial town of Kandy.
Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, a military spokesman, said: "It was a bomb inside the bus." "It was a time bomb weighing about 2kg and fixed onto a seat.
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