COLOMBO, April 12: A bomb ripped through a vegetable market in northeastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 16 people in the latest of a series of blasts which raised serious doubts over upcoming peace talks.
Fifty other people were injured in the port town of Trincomalee when a bomb fixed to a bicycle exploded, hours after a Claymore fragmentation mine killed two constables in the same district.
An indefinite curfew was clamped on the area as rioting erupted after the market blast. Seven shops were torched and several vehicles damaged, police said.—AFP
