COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) - Eight people were killed and 90 wounded when a three-wheel scooter taxi loaded with explosives rammed a bus in Sri Lanka's capital, police and army sources said.
Most victims are members of a police riot squad that was on duty along the road where the explosion happened, the sources said.

May 16, 2008 (LBO ) – A Sri Lanka police bus was targeted by a suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber around noon in the capital Colombo Friday,

A loud explosion has been heard in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, a military spokesman said. Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told Reuters news agency that the

NEW DELHI: The Centre has extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as an unlawful association by two years. The notification to this effect was issued on Wednesday, according to a Home Ministry release here.
The LTTE, an association based in Sri Lanka, has sympathisers, supporters and agents on Indian soil. The group’s objective for a separate homeland for all Tamils threatens the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India, the notification said.
the Sri Lankan Tamils and the Indian Tamils in Sri Lanka.”

NEW YORK - Sri Lanka, celebrating its 60th anniversary of independence from British colonial rule this year, is using a carrot-and-stick strategy in the war that has enveloped the island nation for some 25 years and brought it to the brink of economic disaster.
The country's government has achieved some initial success in containing the home-grown terrorism perpetrated by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, as it tries to wean away the Tamil population from supporting the LTTE's agenda of carving out an independent state in the northern and eastern parts of the island.
te its position. The foreign minister pointed out that a