Sri Lanka loses 58 citizens due to bus explosion

15.06.2006 02:47

The explosion was the worst single act of violence since the government and Tamil Tiger rebels signed a cease-fire in 2002, and renewed fears of a return to war, the AP reports.

A doctor at the hospital where the victims bodies were taken, S. B. Bothota, said that 15 school children were among the 58 killed. Another 45 people were reportedly wounded.

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