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Tamil Tiger suicide blast hits refugees
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-02-09 15:42

COLOMBO - A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber mixed with a group of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka's war zone blew herself up on Monday, killing an unknown number of people and wounding 60, the military said.

"A female suicide cadre who came with civilians, while the military was checking them, exploded herself. Sixty civilians are injured. There are a few deaths and there are military casualties also," a spokesman for the military's Media Centre for National Security said on customary condition of anonymity.

Other military sources confirmed the blast to Reuters.