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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amilaudana" data-source="post: 2186059" data-attributes="member: 1836">Deadly bus blast hits Sri Lanka           An explosion on a bus near the Sri Lankan capital Colombo has caused dozens of casualties, according to Sri Lanka's military.The suspected bombing happened on a passenger bus in Moratuwa during rush hour on Friday.    "There was an explosion in a bus at Moratuwa, a few people were killed and some injured," Ranjith Gunasekara, a police spokesman, told the Reuters news agency.Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, a military spokesman, blamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel group for the attack.    The LTTE, or Tamil Tigers, have been fighting the Sri Lankan government for two decades in an attempt to secure a homeland for ethnic minority Tamils in the north and east of the island.<img src="http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2008/2/11/1_240399_1_5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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