Police arrests Jaffna youth in Dehiwela bombing

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 02:40 GMT]
One Jaffna Tamil youth was arrested Monday evening in connection with the Dehiwala train bomb attack, and several others have been taken in for questioning, reports from Colombo said. The Jaffna youth arrested is now being interrogated by the Terrorist Intelligence Division, reports added.

Meanwhile, the death toll in the Dehiwala train bomb blast has risen to ten Tuesday and most of them were women, Kalubowila general hospital sources said.

Police said that the bomb used in the Dehiwala train bomb blast was about 1 kg, according to preliminary findings of the Government Analyst.