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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
      Editorial:A show of brutality on a holy day
At least fifteen persons were killed and 40 others seriously injured when an LTTE suicide cadre blew himself up at the Godapitiya Jumma mosque in Akuressa, where the national Milad-Ud Nabi festival was to be held to mark the birthday of Prophet Mohammed yesterday.
The suicide bomber, who arrived at the scene on a bicycle, triggered off the bomb around 10.15 a.m. while the chief guest and guests of honour were coming into the mosque in procession to participate in the national Milad-Ud-Nabi festival.
Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mahinda Wijesekera, who was critically injured in the blast was first admitted to the Matara hospital and later airlifted to Colombo. He was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the ...

This image made from video shows an explosion in background, as Sri Lankan Muslim men perform during a religious procession in Akuressa, in Matara, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, March 10, 2009. A suicide bomber attacked a gathering of Muslims celebrating a religious holiday in southern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, killing 10 people and critically wounding a government minister, officials said.
(AP Photo/Krishan Jeewaka)


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