At least 23 people, including several children, were killed and 67 injured on Wednesday when a bomb ripped through a bus in Buttala in South-eastern Sri Lanka.
The bus was carrying large number of school children when the explosion took place around 7:40 am, police sources said, adding the explosives were placed inside the bus.
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