What the records say
- When
- 1993
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 23
- Coordinates
- 6.94° N, 79.86° E
- Description
- 1993 murder of 3rd Sri Lankan president
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: shootings and murdersWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Assassination of Ranasinghe Premadasa: During a May Day rally, President of Sri Lanka Ranasinghe Premadasa is assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
Nearby in time and place
- Mylanthanai massacre9 Aug 1992 · Massacre · Deaths 35
- Palliyagodella massacre15 Oct 1992 · Massacre · Deaths 166
- Polonnaruwa massacre29 Apr 1992 · Massacre · Deaths 157
- October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka massacresOct 1995 · Massacre · Deaths 120
- Eelam War III19 Apr 1995 · War
- Colombo Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka31 Jan 1996 · Terrorist attack
- 1996 Dehiwala train bombing24 Jul 1996 · Rail accident
- 1991 Kokkadichcholai massacre12 Jun 1991 · Massacre · Deaths 152