By DPA,
Colombo : At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 others, including three ministers, were injured in a suicide bombing near a mosque in southern Sri Lanka, a police spokesman said Tuesday.
The attack took place in Godapitiya in the town of Akurassa in Matara district, 160 km south of Colombo.
Most of the victims were Muslim devotees attending celebrations at the mosque for the Milad-un-Nabi festival, marking the birth of the Prophet Mohammed.
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