Sri Lanka army chief ‘critically wounded’ in bombing
A suspected suicide bombing inside the main military headquarters here “critically wounded” Sri Lanka’s army chief Sarath Fonseka and killed five of his bodyguards, officials told. Lieutenant General Fonseka’s convoy was targeted as it drove past the army hospital well within the high security zone, police said adding that they suspected that a woman suicide bomber may have carried out the attack. “Five of his bodyguards who escorted the car on motocycles were killed on the spot,” a police official said, adding that more than a dozen were wounded. Full Story