- Central Bus Station Bombing
Infobox civilian attack
title = Central Bus Station Bombing
caption =
location = Pettah,Colombo ,Sri Lanka
coordinates =
date =April 21 ,1987
time =
timezone =UTC +5:30
type =Car bombing
fatalities = 113
injuries =
perp =
susperp =Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
weapons = The Central Bus Station Bombing was the car bombing of the central bus terminal of Colombo carried out onApril 21 ,1987 in Pettah,Colombo ,Sri Lanka . The bombing killed 113 civilians. [ [http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items01/keydates.htm Chronology of key dates in Sri Lanka's Tamil separatist campaign] ] [cite news
author =
title = Timeline of the Tamil conflict
url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/51435.stm
work =BBC
date =September 4 ,2000
accessdate = 2008-04-30 ]See also
*
2008 Sri Lanka bus bombings
*List of attacks attributed to the LTTE
*Sri Lankan Civil War References
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/newsid_2525000/2525415.stm BBC On This Day - Tamil Tigers blamed for bus garage blast]
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