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Monday, April 07, 2008 - 5.40 GMT     Back
Death toll rises to 14 in yesterday's suicide attack
Fourteen civilians were killed and more than 80 were wounded when a LTTE suicide cadre blew himself in Weliweriya yesterday (April 6).

K.A. Karunarathna, the former national marathon champion and South Asian marathon gold medalist, Luxman Alwis, the national athletic coach were among the dead.

According to hospital sources 15 injured are in critical condition.




  
 


     
 
   
   

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