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| April 1987 | Car bomb explodes at Colombo central bus station, killing 113 people and wounding scores.
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| April 1989 | Car bomb explodes in the eastern port of Trincomalee, killing 51 people shopping for traditional new year.
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| March 1991 | Defence Minister Ranjan Wijeratne is among 19 killed when a car bomb is detonated in Colombo.
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| May 1991 | Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is killed in southern India by a suspected LTTE suicide bomber.
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| Aug. 1992 | The army chief, Lieutenant-General Denzil Kobbekaduwa, is killed in a landmine blast in Kayts, in northern Sri Lanka.
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| Nov 1992 | Navy chief Clancey Fernando is killed in a suicide bombing in Colombo.
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| May 1993 | President Ranasinghe Premadasa and 23 others are killed by a suicide bomber in Colombo.
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| Oct. 1994 | Presidential candidate Gamini Dissanayake is one of 52 killed in a bomb blast at a Colombo election rally.
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| Jan. 1996 | A truck filled with explosives rams into the Central Bank building in Colombo, killing up to 100 people and wounding 1,400.
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| July 1996 | Two bomb blasts on a rush-hour commuter train kill 57 people and wound more than 250.
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| Dec. 1999 | President Chandrika Kumaratunga is lost an eye in assassination attempt by suicide bomber; over 34.
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| June 2000 | Industrial Development Minister C.V. Gunaratne and 21 others are killed in a suicide bomb blast in Colombo.
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| July 2001 | Attack on main air base and only international airport kills at least 12 people and destroys 13 aircraft.
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| Aug. 2005 | Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar is shot dead at his home in Colombo.
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| April 2006 | Army Commander Major General Sarath Fonseka is badly hurt in an abortive suicide attack on Army HQ in Colombo.
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| May 2006 | Kethesh Loganathan, deputy head of peace secretariat, is shot dead at his Colombo home.
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| June 2006 | Army Deputy Chief of Staff Parami Kulatunga killed when suicide bomber on motorcycle outside Colombo.
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| June 2006 | A mine attack on a civilian bus in the central district of Anuradapura kills 64.
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| Oct. 2006 | Nearly 100 people, mostly navy sailors, are killed in a suicide bombing on a convoy near Habarana, NE of Colombo.
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| Jan. 1, 2008 | Main opposition United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian T. Maheshweran is shot dead at a Hindu temple.
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| Jan. 8, 2008 | Nation Building Minister D.M. Dassanayake is killed by a roadside bomb at Ja-Ela, 12 miles (19 km) north of Colombo.
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| Jan. 16, 2008 | Civilian bus bombed at Moneragala, killing 24 people and wounding dozens.
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| Feb. 2, 2008 | Civilian bus bombed at Dambulla, killing at least 20 people and wounding 50.
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