What the records say
- When
- 31 Jan 1996
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 6.93° N, 79.84° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Colombo Central Bank bombing.
Summary
Colombo Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 people and injuring 1,400.
Colombo Central Bank bombing
1996 terrorist attack in Sri Lanka
The Central Bank bombing was one of the deadliest attacks carried out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the separatist civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tigers.
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