Blast at Sri Lanka police station kills one, wounds 18
A blast ripped through a police station in central Sri Lanka today, killing one person and wounding at least 18 others, as constables were questioning an army deserter arrested in connection with a drug offence.
A police official in the town of Nuwara Eliya said the suspect, who has been identified as an army deserter, had exploded a hand grenade while police tried to search him.
“The man set off the blast in an apparent bid to escape from custody,” the police official told PTI by telephone from Nuwara Eliya, 180 km east of Colombo.
A hospital official said 16 constables and two civilians who were at the police station were wounded and brought to the Nuwara Eliya hospital.
(the hindu)
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