Over 25 killed

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Over 25 people including several policemen are believed to be killed in the blast which took place in Batticaloa a short while ago, the military said.

Military Spokesman Major General Ubaya Medawala told Daily Mirror online that two Chinese nationals were among the casualties.

Over 45 injured people have been admitted to the Batticaloa Hospital and there are moves to airlift some of them to Colombo. (Daily Mirror online)

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Comments - 26

shanka Friday, 17 September 2010 09:06 AM

Why do we need to keep this much of explosives inside a police station? Don't we have enough safety policies or procedures?

Nan Friday, 17 September 2010 04:41 PM

Extremely tragic!

manjula Friday, 17 September 2010 10:04 AM

perhaps indian sabotage against chinese

marcus Friday, 17 September 2010 09:42 AM

unfortunately the government cannot blame General SF

Ibnu Batuta Friday, 17 September 2010 09:41 AM

We hear such sad story after one and a half year. See whether there is any security laps.

DHA Friday, 17 September 2010 09:37 AM

USA or INDIA ?....someone wants the countries image worldwide tarnished.....!!!

Tm Abay Friday, 17 September 2010 09:26 AM

Indeed would those who never take safety measures in their country take them here?

Tm Abay Friday, 17 September 2010 09:23 AM

Whatever I imply if terrorists still exist, R U gonna blame me for that. What difference does it make on what I imply?

megastar Friday, 17 September 2010 09:15 AM

well the chinese are involved... its no suprise!

josh Friday, 17 September 2010 09:14 AM

apparently the explosives were those used by construction workers to blast through rocks to build roads... the project requirement was that all explosives be stored in the police station for security reasons.. when a new truck load come today, it had blasted after some mishandling...

Saman/South Africa Friday, 17 September 2010 09:13 AM

Negligence of Authorities.poor general public pay the price

mahinda pathirana Friday, 17 September 2010 09:12 AM

upon reading most of the comments posted here, I wonder why some of the pessimists still want bombs to explode in this country.

Territory Friday, 17 September 2010 07:53 AM

Tragedy.

Lakmal Friday, 17 September 2010 09:00 AM

Now who is the government going to blame???

I think JVP.............

Abdul Friday, 17 September 2010 08:55 AM

A cat amongst the pigeons...Very unfortunate

shavantha Friday, 17 September 2010 08:41 AM

This country does not need bombs again please stop this mad ness

archis Friday, 17 September 2010 08:39 AM

Now who is the government going to blame???

malkanthi Friday, 17 September 2010 08:39 AM

This may be sabo on chinese involvement!! or the rift between the two terror groups??

AMICUS Friday, 17 September 2010 08:38 AM

QUESTION ARISES WHO AUTHORISED TRANSPORT OF EXPLOSIVES IF THEY WERE NOT CLEARED FOR SAFETY & SECURITY. WHY DID THEY CHOOSE A POLICE STATION FOR SAFE PARKING AS CIVILIANS FREQUENT THE POLICE FOR LEGITIMATE PURPOSES. NOW HOW TO IDENTIFY EXPLOSIVE LADEN CONTAINER CARRIERS ON THE ROADS ? THESE,THE AUTHORITIES MUST GIVE IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TO.

Sue Friday, 17 September 2010 08:37 AM

Wonder what reason will be given this time....

knight Rider Friday, 17 September 2010 08:36 AM

Has anybody heard of safety standards for explosive storage ?

JSilva Friday, 17 September 2010 08:35 AM

what are you implying ? maybe you can't wait for the certain elements to start destroying this country again, just for some petty political gains.

Bird Eye Friday, 17 September 2010 08:35 AM

Sabotage, Conspiracy theory, most probably. Too much for a coincident of events.

Kamiss Friday, 17 September 2010 08:30 AM

Extremely sad.

Tm Abay Friday, 17 September 2010 08:13 AM

That's the 2nd blast for this month. So, is it another accident

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