Top Sri Lankan minister assassinated
Posted: Friday, August 12th, 2005 11:47 pmSri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar has been assassinated in a gun attack in the capital, Colombo. The murder was blamed by a senior police officer on the separatist Tamil Tigers, who have been observing a ceasefire since 2002.
A spokeswoman for the Norwegian monitors overseeing the truce warned that the killing could “put the whole ceasefire under risk”.
President Chandrika Kumaratunga has now imposed a state of emergency. …
Mr Kadirgamar, 73, was shot near his heavily-guarded home on Friday evening.
Police believe one or two snipers carried out the attack, hitting the veteran minister several times in the head and chest. … Read full story
