COLOMBO, DECEMBER 23: Hours after being sworn in for a second six-year term, Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga flew to London for medical treatment to wounds she suffered during an assassination attempt, officials said today.
Kumaratunga, who suffered facial wounds in a Saturday attack by a suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) woman suicide bomber, won 51.12 percent of votes cast in Tuesday’s balloting.
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“The president is likely to be away for a week or a week and a half. Hopefully she will be back before the millennium,” a senior government official said.
