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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chathumal" data-source="post: 1151002" data-attributes="member: 20928">Sri Lanka Minister, 6 Civilians Injured in Bomb Blast (Update1)Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- A Sri Lankan government minister and six civilians were injured in a claymore bomb blast north of the capital, Colombo, according to the Defense Ministry. Nation Building Minister D.M. Dassanayake received minor injuries in the attack that targeted his convoy today, military spokesman Udaya Nanayakkara said. He blamed the bombing on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. ``With their leaders being killed, the LTTE are probably trying to target VIPs,'' Nanayakkara said by telephone. The Tamil Tigers, designated a terrorist group by the U.S., the European Union and India, have been fighting for 24 years in a conflict that has killed more than 70,000 people. The military is targeting LTTE leaders, killing the group's military intelligence chief at the weekend and the head of its political wing in November. Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE leader, was wounded in an air raid in November, the government said last month, citing intelligence reports. Today's blast occurred in the Jaela area, Defense Ministry spokesman Kanishka Rajapakse said by telephone. Local media reported the blast occurred at a junction close to the main thoroughfare leading to the island's only international airport. After the attack, the benchmark Colombo All-Share Index fell 62.61 points, or 2.5 percent, to 2,425.94 at 11:42 a.m. local time, its biggest drop in almost eight months.</blockquote>

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