By IRNA,
New Delhi : Unidentified persons Friday lobbed a bomb targeting the home of opposition Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka’s campaign manager Colombo, capital city of Sri Lanka as violence escalated with just four days left for the polls.
The bomb severely damaged the house of businessman and opposition member Tiran Alles in the Western Province and destroyed his car parked in the compound.
But Alles and his family members escaped unhurt, PTI reported.
The house of Alles, who is the General Secretary of the SLFP Mahajana wing, caught fire after the attack. The fire brigade was called in to douse the flames.
“The attackers are believed to have come in a van and carried out the attack and fled,” a police official at the scene said.