A TAMIL woman suicide bomber who blew herself up in a bid to kill Sri Lanka's top general was pregnant and used her condition to get inside army headquarters in Colombo for a maternity check and to help conceal the explosives, an investigator says.
The bomber has been identified as a 21-year-old Tamil woman who is believed to have been a member of the rebels' Black Tigers suicide squad.
She blew herself up in a bid to kill Sri Lanka's army commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka inside the heavily fortified military headquarters in Colombo.
The general who was injured was in a car when the blast happened that killed 11 people and injured 26.
The attempt has lead to a number of retaliatory attacks by the government on Tamil rebels. |