Six policemen and a civilian were killed and 10 others wounded in a Claymore mine attack in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, the defence ministry said. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam set off the mine, planted near an electricity transformer, targetting a bus taking constables home on leave, a ministry spokesman said.
"Six policemen were killed and some more were wounded when the LTTE detonated a Claymore mine," the spokesman told reporters in Colombo.
Security forces on January 19 captured the main Tiger stronghold of Vakarai town where they maintained a de facto separate state for over 10 years.
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