At least four people were wounded when a bomb exploded under a passenger train in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday. The mine exploded under the engine of the train when it was passing through Navaladi in Batticaloa.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels derailed a train in Sri Lanka’s restive east on Wednesday with a landmine, injuring three people, the military said, a day before Japan’s peace envoy was due to visit the district.
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A bomb exploded under a passenger train in Sri Lanka’s embattled east on Wednesday, wounding at least four people, military officials said.
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Source: Reuters By Simon Gardner COLOMBO, June 6 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels derailed a train in Sri Lanka’s restive east on Wednesday with a landmine, injuring three people, the military said, a day …
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Colombo, June 6 (DPA) A claymore mine was set off against a moving train in eastern Sri Lanka Wednesday, police said.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP): A mine attack on a passenger train in eastern Sri Lanka wounded at least three people on Wednesday, the military said.
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Australian provincial coach Trevor Bayliss will fly to Sri Lanka next week to be interviewed for the vacant national coach’s position, it was reported Wednesday.
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In an extensive interview to Al Jazeera television last week, Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse set out his government’s policy on the island’s protracted conflict. In doing so he put forward a number of contradictory assertions and policies, which boiled down to a single overriding theme: military defeat of the Tamil Tigers.
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Trevor Bayliss will be interviewed by Sri Lanka next week as a potential replacement for Tom Moody as the country’s head coach. Bayliss is competing with at least one other Australian, Terry Oliver, who is in charge of the Queensland team.
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The LTTE on Monday demanded international monitoring of human rights violations in Sri Lanka as the ..
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