26 Suicide bombers on the prowl: President cautions Cabinet

Fri, 2009-04-03 04:39
By Ravi Ladduwahetty- Sri Lanka Editor- Asia Tribune

Colombo, 03 April, (ASiantribune.com): President Mahinda Rajapaksa has cautioned his Cabinet that he had been notified by intelligence sources that 16 LTTE suicide cadres have entered the Colombo city.

The President had cautioned his Ministers at the weekly Cabinet meeting Wednesday night, political sources told Asian Tribune.

He has also advised Ministers not to hold large scale meetings in the run up to the Western Provincial Council polls billed for April 25 and had asked them to be extremely careful about their movements.

He has also said that there have been 10 suicide cadres who have entered the outstations.

There have been three earlier suicide attacks on Ministers of the Rajapaksa Cabinet. The most senior has been former Chief Government Whip, Highways Minister and Gampaha District MP Jeyaraj Fernandopulle who was killed in a suicide blast while he was about to launch a race at a play ground at Weliweriya and Nation Building Minister and Puttalam District D.M. Dassanayake who was killed in a suicide blast while he was travelling from his electorate at Anamaduwa to Parliament

The most recent attack was at the Milad Un Nabi celebrations at Matara where a suicide attack was launched with Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mahinda Wijesekera was injured in his head and where Petroleum Minister A.H.M. Fowzie and Cultural Affairs Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena narrowly escaped unhurt.

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