24 killed in Sri Lanka bus blast

At least 24 people were killed and more than 40 wounded when a suspected Tamil Tiger bomb ripped through a packed commuter bus on the outskirts of Colombo on Friday. The Sri Lankan military has blamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, for the attack. Fighting between government forces and the LTTE has intensified since the government formally pulled out of a six-year-old ceasefire pact, in January. After driving the rebels out of the east, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's government has pledged to destroy them militarily.