Nineteen people including 12 military personnel were injured on Wednesday in an explosion on a bus in Sri Lanka, said the military, adding they do not know the cause but suspect it may be a bomb or grenade. Since the end of Sri Lanka’s nearly three-decade civil war in 2009 there have been no targeted attacks on the military. “There had been an explosion in a passenger bus. We suspect it as a bomb blast,” military spokesman Sumith Atapattu told Reuters. Tamil Tiger rebels commonly used Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to target civilians and military personnel during the civil war, which killed at least 100,000 people.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 21, 2018 07:07 UTC