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Sri Lanka capital blast kills 6, injures 75

COLOMBO
Fri May 16, 2008 6:02am EDT

COLOMBO (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and 75 wounded in a blast that shook a commercial quarter of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, doctors and the military said.

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"Six people killed from the explosion," said military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara. "The target was a police bus and a motorbike had crashed into the police bus."

Doctor Hector Weerasinghe, director of the National Hospital in Colombo, said 75 people had been admitted with blast injuries.

(Reporting by Ranga Sirilal; Editing by Alex Richardson)
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