Saturday, February 11, 2012
- Lahore: Shopping centre caught fire in Gulberg
- Australia beat Sri Lanka by 5 runs, remain unbeaten in tri-series
- Blasts, firing near PTIs rally leave 7 injured in Swabi
- Imran says will shoot down drones if comes to power
- 25 killed, 175 injured in Syria blasts
- Aqib Javed resigns as bowling coach
- NATO supplies from Pakistani airspace never stopped: Pentagon
- 11 militants killed, 19 injured in Orakzai operation
- Mansoor Ijaz to record statement via videolink on Feb 22
- LHC adjourns hearing of petition against TCP
Bomb blast kills 2, wounds 36 in Colombo
A suicide bomber carried out an attack outside an air force base in Colombo on Friday, killing two airmen and wounding 36 other people, police and a hospital spokeswoman said. The powerful explosion came just hours after President Mahinda Rajapakse announced the army's capture of the Tamil Tiger rebels' political capital in the north of the island. "Two airmen died in the suicide blast and another 14 airmen were wounded," hospital spokeswoman Pushpa Soysa told a foreign news agency. "Another 22 people, all civilians, were also wounded and admitted to hospital." Police said the bomber tried to enter the airforce base but was stopped by sentries.
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