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Blast in Sri Lanka eastern town kills at least 8

Fri May 9, 2008 9:15am EDT
COLOMBO, May 9 (Reuters) - A blast in a town in eastern Sri Lankan killed at least eight people on Friday, the military said, a day before the first provincial council elections in the region in two decades.

"There has been an explosion in Ampara town a little while ago," said a military spokesman. "There are eight bodies on the spot."

Authorities have tightened security for the polls in the districts of Trincomalee, Ampara and Batticaloa on Saturday. The elections come amid intensified fighting between the army and Tamil Tiger rebels. (Reporting by Ranga Sirilal;Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)


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