A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday near a convoy carrying a senior Sri Lankan Cabinet minister, wounding his deputy and at least six others, the military said.
Maithripala Sirisena, the agricultural development minister, was not hurt in the blast in Boralwegamuwa, about nine miles (15 kilometers) from the capital, Colombo, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said.
Sirisena's junior minister, Siripala Gamlath, was wounded, Nanayakkara said, blaming separatist Tamil rebels for the blast. The bomber was killed, he said.
The Tamil Tigers, whom the United States and European Union list as terrorists, did not comment …
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