Sri Lanka: January 5, 2000

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  An LTTE suicide bomber detonated her bomb outside the prime ministers office, while being questioned by a policeman. The bomber, and ten others died, over two dozen were injured.  Two hours later, a Tamil politician sympathetic to the government was assassinated. There have been at least fourteen of these suicide bombings since 1987.

 

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