By IRNA
New Delhi : Two fresh terror strikes that killed at least 12 people marred Sri Lanka’s 60th Independence Day celebrations today even as President Mahinda Rajapakse asserted that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was facing unprecedented defeat in the strife-torn island nation’s over 25-year-long ethnic conflict.
The celebrations came despite threats from the LTTE and the two weekend bomb attacks that killed 34 civilians, PTI reported here.
Despite unprecedented security, LTTE rebels set off a bomb underneath a power transformer just south of Colombo early today, although no one was injured in the attack.
In another attack, at least 12 passengers were killed and 17 injured today when the bus they were travelling was hit by a claymore mine explosion in a town in North-central Sri Lanka.