Female Suicide Bomber Kills Six at Rail Station
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main railway station in the Sri Lankan capital yesterday, killing six people and wounding 95 others, the military and a hospital official said.
“It is a suicide blast on Platform 3. The bomber has got down from a train and exploded,” a military spokesman, Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara, said. Six travelers were killed in the blast, Mr. Nanayakkara said. A nurse at Colombo National Hospital, Pushpa Soysa, said 95 wounded people were taken to the hospital.
“I was near my counter and I heard a big blast. When I looked behind I saw a policeman bleeding,” a ticket inspector at the station, Ravindra Pinto, said.
A bomb on a bus Saturday killed 18 people in the central town of Dambulla.
