Seven killed, 13 injured in Trinco claymore explosion
One soldier of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), one woman home guard, two police constables, a police seargeant and a civilian were killed when a claymore mine exploded at Anuradhapura junction, about three km off the east port city Monday around 11.55 a.m. At least fourteen others were injured, Trincomalee police sources said. Another woman police constable, seriously injured in the explosion, died on her way to the hospital. Conditions of two others are serious, medical sources said.
The claymore mine fixed in an abandoned three-wheeler near the army sentry was detonated by remote control when a group of soldiers and police tried to search the three-wheeler, police sources said.
Majority of those injured in the blast were passengers in a bus bound for Kanniya village which got caught in the explosion, police sources said.
The number of injured now stands at 13. Of them, two critically wounded persons have been transferred to general hospitals in Kandy and Colombo, medical sources said.
Security forces immediately launched a cordon and search operation in the area surrounding the explosion site and recovered a live-claymore mine. Bomb disposal squad of the SLA rushed to the site and defused the mine, police sources said.
In Sri Lanka wurden heute Morgen drei Menschen getötet und mindestens zwei schwer verletzt. Laut „Bild“ ist ein Sprengsatz am Kontrollpunkt der Stadt Trincomalee explodiert und hat zwei Polizisten und einen Zivilisten getötet und zwei Soldaten schwer verletzt.

TamilNet berichtet unter Berufung auf Polizeiquellen von vier Toten und zehn Verletzten. Neben zwei Polizisten und einem Zivilisten ist unter den Toten auch ein Soldat der sri-lankischen Armee. Reuters zufolge sprach ein Militärsprecher von sechs Toten, fünf Sicherheitsleuten und einem Zivilisten. AFP berichtet ebenfalls von sechs Toten, aber dieser Agentur zufolge sprach die Polizei von drei Polizisten und drei Zivilisten.