Suicide blast Near Colombo 8 killed

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A Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed seven security personnel and a civilian at a base just outside Sri Lanka's capital on Sunday as troops mounted pressure on the rebels in the north, officials said. The male bomber infiltrated the base of the Civil Defence Force near a market in Wattala, a suburb of the capital Colombo, a police official at the scene said.

"The suicide bomber managed to get through the first checkpoint and stage the bombing inside the CDF detachment," the officer said. "An officer and four men were killed on the spot." The wounded were taken to the main hospital in Colombo as well as a nearby medical facility, doctors said. Twenty people were taken to hospital, of whom three were dead on arrival.

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