COLOMBO – Nineteen people including 12 *Military *personnel were injured onWednesday in an explosion on a bus in *Srilanka*, said the *military *addingthey do not know the cause but suspect it may be a bomb or grenade.
Since the end of Sri Lanka’s nearly three-decade civil war in 2009 therehave been no targeted attacks on the military.
“There had been an explosion in a passenger bus. There are some fragmentson the body of the bus. We suspect it as a bomb blast,” *military *spokesmanSumith Atapattu told Reuters.
“The investigations underway to find out the details.”
Atapattu said seven army and five air force personnel along with sevencivilians were injured in a fire following the explosion on the passengerbus which operated from northern Jaffna peninsula to central town ofDiyathalawa, where one of the main militarylink> training centers is located.
Sri lanka link> ended a 26-yearseparatist war in May 2009 defeating Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) who fought to carve out a separate state for ethnic minority Tamil’sin the far north of the Indian ocean island nation.
Tamil Tiger rebels commonly used Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) totarget civilians and military link>personnelduring the civil war, which killed at least 100,000 people.