On this day in 1996, a truck loaded with explosives crashed into the central bank in the heart of Colombo’s financial district, killing at least 91.
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On May 17, 1998 the mayor of the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna was killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
On March 1, 1991 at least 30 people, including Sri Lanka’s Deputy Defence Minister were killed by a car bomb in Colombo.
On February 20, 2009 the LTTE tried to fly small light aircraft into military installations in and around Sri Lanka’s capital city, Colombo.
On December 3, 1984 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam terrorists massacred 11 Sinhalese villagers in the NE Sri Lankan village of Kokkilai.
On this day in 2004, a female suicide bomber trained and tasked by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) set off explosives in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
On June 6, 2008 bomb attacks on two commuter buses in Sri Lanka killed 22 people and injured another 100: the LTTE was suspected
On this day in 2008 a suspected LTTE suicide bomber blew herself up in a packed railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, killing 11 people and wounding 92
On this day in 1988 three suicide bombers crashed a truck through the gates of Sri Lanka’s holiest Buddhist temple, killing 8 other people, wounding 23
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam assassinated the head of the Sri Lankan navy and his Flag Lieutenant in November 1992.