President Appeals for Calm After Bomb
From Times Wire Reports
Sri Lanka’s president appealed for calm after a train bombing blamed on Tamil separatists killed nearly 70 people and set off a wave of bomb scares that sent people fleeing from buildings in Colombo, the capital. “Terrorism has once again raised its ugly head,” President Chandrika Kumaratunga said in a national radio address. Tamil Tiger rebels denied the government’s charge that they were responsible for the explosions.
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