Suicide bombing in Colombo after 2 years, 5 killed

No one claimed responsibility and the Tigers offered no comment about the attack.

Broken glass and blood covered the floor of the police station, which was under heavy guard. The director of Colombo’s National Hospital said 13 people had been brought in for treatment, of whom four had died.

The Tigers terrorised the capital with numerous suicide bomb attacks during the war and on Monday they observed ‘‘Black Tiger Day’’, commemorating their suicide bombers.

Following the blast, Sri Lanka’s President Chandrika Kumaratunga vowed to uphold the truce with the LTTE. She said she will not allow the bombing to derail the Norwegian-backed peace process. “We can’t allow one or two incidents to reverse the peace process,” she said, adding if the Tigers were responsible for the bombing, it would be a violation of the truce agreement.