The World - News from Nov. 27, 1988

The Sri Lanka government imposed a curfew in the suburbs of Colombo, the capital, after Sinhalese extremists prolonged a wave of terror by boarding a bus, shooting and stabbing passengers and then firing on troops rushed to the scene, killing six people, officials reported. The attack brought to at least 49 the number of deaths attributed to the militants in a 24-hour period. Soldiers have been escorting passenger buses in Colombo and its outskirts since a series of strike calls by the People’s Liberation Front, a militant Sinhalese group, earlier this month. The group opposes an India-sponsored peace plan signed by the government aimed at ending a five-year-old war by minority Tamil rebels and is demanding the resignation of President Junius R. Jayewardene.